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A Lexington,
Kentucky eight-grader is facing
felony charges after he put some crumbled peanut butter cookies in the lunchbox
of a fellow classmate known for having severe allergic reaction to peanuts or
peanut products.
The allergic student did not eat the cookies Thursday at Morton Middle School
in Lexington
and did not have a reaction.
According to Fayette
County schools’
representative Lisa Deffendall, the accused student was seen putting crumbled peanut
butter cookies in the allergic student’s lunchbox during a lunch break. After an
investigation, he was arrested on a felony wanton endangerment charge, the
Associated Press reports.
State legal statutes say a person is charged with felony or
first-degree, wanton endangerment when someone is suspected of engaging in
conduct that causes the danger of death or physical injury to another person.
The student who was charged will be placed into the juvenile
criminal justice system.
Deffendall said it was well known that the other student was
allergic to peanuts. She also added there was no known history of problems
between the two 13-year-olds.
It is already a fact that, for people allergic to peanuts,
even trace amounts of peanut oil can cause severe reactions and even death. Symptoms
of allergies can include hives, welts and swelling that can restrict airways.
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