4th grade boys accused of attempting to poison teacher - TomoNews

A pair of fourth-grade boys allegedly poisoned their teacher at a school in Brooklyn on Monday, according to a CNN report. The two boys, aged 9 and 12, put rat poison in the water bottle of Johanna Cherepany, 62, a veteran school teacher at P.S. 315 School of Performing Arts on Glenwood Road in Flatbush. The teacher drank the tainted water and began feeling ill the following day.A student who was aware of boys mischief told her mother about it after school. The mother called the school’s principal to warn that the teacher had been poisoned.Cherepany was rushed to the doctor’s office the following day and treated for nausea and high blood pressure. Police arrested the kids and charged them with reckless endangerment, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. Police believe the younger boy brought the rat poison to school. They found more rat poison in his backpack.