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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Allen boy’s butt allegedly burned by teacher

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A former teacher at Allen's Lowery Freshman Center is facing injury to a child charges after allegedly burning the butt of a mentally disabled boy. Susanne Means is accused of using pans in her classroom to leave scald marks on the 14-year-old. Means resigned in early June.

Posted by Alex B.


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Pavel Lishin Verified

Why did she have pans and a stove in her classroom to begin with?

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jtmbls Anonymous

HomeEc?

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Aastro Anonymous

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Mike Orren Staff

Comment removed for off topic unsubstantiated allegations.

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dawn0220 Anonymous

First of all, the title of your article is exceedingly unfair. How do you know she is a bad teacher? This does not serve to report the news, just manipulate readers to take a certain view. I respectfully ask you reconsider the title of this article.

I have known Susanne and her husband for almost 15 years and she is a compassionate and dedicated wife, mother, and teacher and a Christian woman.

I feel this mentally challenged student was abused outside of school and coached to name her as his abuser.

Susanne weighs all of 100 lbs, and what this article fails to address is she would have had to pull the student's pants down in a classroom with 2 aides and other students.

All Life Skills classrooms have kitchens, so there is nothing evil in this...they are built and designed that way BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT to teach mentally challenged students "life skills" such as cooking, doing dishes, etc...and surely a student receiving 2nd degree burns to the buttocks would cry out, sending half the school running to see what was going on. And by the way, about 99.9% of U.S. homes have a kitchen and pans, too, so why isn't that considered sinister?

Anyone, especially a dedicated teacher, accused of this crime and dragged to a police station would be a nervous wreck and probably fail a polygraph.

Susanne COMPLETELY PASSED a subsequent polygraph with one of the most respected technicians in the U.S.

My thoughts and prayers are with this wonderful woman who has devoted her life to teaching special needs students most teachers do not want to teach, and I hope whomever was so evil as to coach this vulnerable and suggestable student to name her is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

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Pavel Lishin Verified

For the record, polygraphs are utter crap regardless of outcome.

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Tracy Yost Verified

ditto what Pavel said.

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