October 06, 2006

The question appears not to be...

..."Am Our Children Lurning?" but rather, "Exactly WHAT Am Our Children Lurning!?" Teacher charged with disturbing corpse

ROCKY GAP, Va. (AP) — A high school science teacher is charged with breaking into a century-old funeral vault, handling the remains of a corpse, and taking photographs of two students holding the bones inside the crypt.

Authorities have charged Candace Longworth, 31, of Bastian, with a felony charge of disturbing and defiling a dead person from a place of burial and two misdemeanor counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The teenagers have been charged as juveniles.

"It's not anything anyone would call school-related," said Tazewell County Commonwealth's Attorney Dennis Lee. "It's just bizarre." [...]

Uhmmm, ya think!?

Funny, but she doesn't look like what you think a corpse-disturber would look like. ANYway, why would anyone think this is a good idea? And that it would be an even better idea to photograph yourself in the act?


And just in case the page is removed, here's a copy of the putative Tomb Raider's photo.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at October 6, 2006 02:46 PM
Comments

She doesn't look a thing like Lara Croft.

Posted by: Jordana at October 6, 2006 03:10 PM

And I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing...

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at October 6, 2006 03:50 PM

I have to say I would have hoped a TEACHER would have had better judgment--am quite disappointed in her if this is true. (I realize no matter what occupation we have, we can all stumble--but she should have thought about the message she seems to have been sending her students.)

Posted by: Stan at October 6, 2006 05:03 PM