Dumb Criminals

Well, She’s Boned

Monday, October 9th, 2006 • Filed under Other

skeletonOn the one hand, it’s bizarre how some teachers will get involved with their students. On the other hand, at least this time, it didn’t involve sex — even if it did involve holding bones.

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.”

But if it were “school related,” would she have to send out a permission slip? “I give my son or daughter permission to defile a grave in the name of education…”

To be honest, the teacher opened the crypt because she was attempting to contact the descendants of the dead person, according to the AP. When she did manage to crossover, the relatives complained about how she never calls and never writes and never sent a gift to her Uncle Milton’s fifth wedding.

The Sheriff’s Department learned about the grave descreation after one of the student’s started passing around the graveyard photos. They became even more concerned when the yearbook ran them on their extracirricular clubs page.

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