| 15th December 2006 10:04 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
Student Accused Of Putting Bodily Fluids In Food
Wheaton North Student Said To Have Put Semen In Communal Salad Dressing
Mike Puccinelli
Reporting
(CBS) WHEATON, Ill. A student at Wheaton North High School is accused in a vulgar case of food tampering. Police say he put his bodily fluid into salad dressing in the school cafeteria.
CBS 2 news partner The Naperville Sun had the tip on the story. CBS 2's West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli reports a letter is going home to parents warning about the possible health hazard.
The student, a senior, is not in school at this time. School officials first learned of the case of food tampering late Tuesday.
At Wheaton North High School the mission is to create self-directed students who make sound decisions. Last week one of those students decided to do the unthinkable when officials say he spiked a container of cafeteria salad dressing with his own semen.
Police say an attempted aggravated battery arrest is imminent.
"An act occurred that could have physically harmed someone at the school, but no one was physically harmed," said Commander Joseph Eversole of the Wheaton Police Department.
Police were called into the investigation by District 200 superintendent Gary Catalani. He did not want to talk on camera and asked us to hold the story so parents would learn what happened in letters that were put in first class mail today.
But students say it's too late, and everyone knows about the incident already.
And everyone is universally repulsed.
"The whole school is disgusted," said senior Brian Corcoran.
"That's got to be the sickest thing I've ever heard in my life," said Nick Anderson, also a senior student.
"It's just pretty gross that someone would actually do that," said senior Edward Lee.
"It's been going on for a month. That's what we've all been hearing," said senior Katie Muir, but school officials say their investigation has shown that it happened just once, last Wednesday.
They say the student admitted he put the semen into a container of ranch dressing in the student commons dining area. And officials have determined that the contents could have been ingested during the last lunch period on Wednesday and during all five lunch periods on Thursday.
The superintendent sought to reassure saying, "We want to make sure every precaution is taken and we're doing that. We've changed protocols with food service containers to ensure this never happens again."
From now on the condiments in all 20 schools in the district will only be available in individual packets or in large containers, making them very difficult to tamper with.
The district notified the DuPage Department of Health, who did not return calls for comment Thursday. Many of the students are concerned, as ingesting semen can spread HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases.
(CBS 2, the Naperville Sun and the Aurora Beacon-News are news partners covering stories in the western suburbs of Chicago. If you know of stories happening in this region, contact us.
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| 16th December 2006 12:57 AM |
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| Barney Fife |
Update:
Dec 15, 2006 10:21 am US/Central
Student Faces Charges In Semen-In-Dressing Case
School Tests Student For Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Letter To Parents On Salad Dressing Tampering
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(CBS) WHEATON, Ill. A high school student is facing criminal charges after school officials say he ejaculated into the cafeteria salad dressing.
Marco Castro, 17, was charged with one count each of attempted aggravated battery and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors, Wheaton police said.
Castro is accused of spiking a container of cafeteria salad dressing at Wheaton North High School with his own semen last week.
He had not been arrested as of Friday, but a warrant has been issued and police said he will likely be processed on Monday.
A letter went home to parents on Thursday, in which principal Jill Bullo wrote that on Dec. 6, the student took the salad dressing container into the boys' restroom, ejaculated into it, and placed it back on the cafeteria condiment table.
The student, a senior, admitted his action after being questioned, and was "appropriately disciplined" by the school, Bullo wrote.
"It is unclear if anyone subsequently used the salad dressing prior to its normal cleaning by food service personnel," Bullo wrote.
Sodexho, the school's food service provider, requires that condiment containers be emptied and washed every other day.
But Bullo said company officials are unsure whether the container was washed Wednesday after lunch. Officials determined that the contents could have been ingested during the last lunch period on Wednesday and during all five lunch periods on Thursday.
The school contacted the DuPage County Health Department, and indicated that it was unlikely any pathogens could survive in the dressing, the student should be tested for sexually transmitted diseases.
He was tested on Wednesday, but the test results will not be back until next week, Bullo wrote.
Several students reported the incident to the dean's office this past Tuesday afternoon, Bullo wrote.
Police were called into the investigation by District 200 superintendent Gary Catalani. When CBS 2 West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli reported this story on Thursday, Catalani did not want to talk on camera and asked to have the story held until the letters were sent out.
But by then, students said, it was too late, and everyone knew about the incident already.
And everyone was universally repulsed.
"The whole school is disgusted," said senior Brian Corcoran.
"That's got to be the sickest thing I've ever heard in my life," said Nick Anderson, also a senior student.
"It's just pretty gross that someone would actually do that," said senior Edward Lee.
"It's been going on for a month. That's what we've all been hearing," said senior Katie Muir, but school officials say their investigation has shown that it happened just once, last Wednesday.
From now on the condiments in all 20 schools in the district will only be available in individual packets or in large containers, making them very difficult to tamper with.
The DuPage County Health Department, in consultation with the Illinois Department of Public Health, issued a statement Thursday about the incident.
"The risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted disease or other disease from the ingestion of food contaminated with semen is considered extremely low," the statement said. "We are not aware of any documented cases of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases that have been spread through this means."
However, the person responsible is undergoing medical evaluation, the statement said. If he has an illness that may pose a risk to others, information will be provided to the parents of potentially exposed students.
CBS 2 West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli and Naperville Sun reporters Khadija Ali and Katie Foutz contributed to this report.
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| 16th December 2006 06:28 AM |
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| corgi37 |
Whats the big deal? Ever heard of Macca's "special sauce"? |
| 16th December 2006 10:17 AM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
Why? Joey, Why? Why would someone do something like that??? |
| 16th December 2006 10:48 AM |
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| Yap Yap |
Hope the dude never opens an eating joint. "Good-bye and cum again!" |
| 16th December 2006 11:16 AM |
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| WJ |
I thought cops never release the names of underage offenders?
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| 16th December 2006 02:01 PM |
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| Barney Fife |
quote:
Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
Why? Joey, Why? Why would someone do something like that???
Sick fun.
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WJ wrote:
I thought cops never release the names of underage offenders?
That kid's in for some major physical abuse now. He'll probably need to transfer very far away to be even halfway safe. |
| 16th December 2006 03:50 PM |
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| Joey |
" He'll probably need to transfer very far away to be even halfway safe. "
< ---- Iraq ?!
Oh , Lil' buddy ( Lil' Fiji )
You are bad.
Baby Joe Wolcott
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