Police arrest Conn. teacher accused of forcing 5-year-old to eat lunch boy had tossed in trash
Associated Press | Mar 18, 2009
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – A kindergarten teacher in Connecticut has been arrested for allegedly forcing a 5-year-old boy to eat food the child had thrown in a garbage can.
Sixty-seven-year-old Anne O’Donnell, a teacher at Park City Magnet School in Bridgeport, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of risk of injury to a minor.
School officials say the charge stems from an incident last week when the boy apparently tossed out his lunch of chicken nuggets and a banana from the school cafeteria.
The teacher is accused of retrieving the items from the garbage can and forcing the boy to eat them in front of her.
O’Donnell has been released on a promise to appear in court.
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theres no way a 67 year old should be a teacher
if that was my kid I’d make that woman do the same in front of her whole class.
No one should be forced to eat if they don’t want to. Too many times in my life I was forced or coerced to eat when I simply didn’t want to or feel like it. I was over weight in grade school- yet would be harassed by the principal for not cleaning my plate. And what tastes good to a child is just not the same as adults.
And that teacher has no business being near children in any form.