School Workers Fed Spicy Takis to Student with Digestive Disability: Police [Video]

Three workers at a Delaware elementary school were arrested after authorities allege they abused children with special needs.

Makayla Lomax, 31, Marrisa Johnson, 26, and Morgan Donahue, 21, are all charged with endangering the welfare of a child, according to a press release shared by the Smyrna Police Department in early November. Lomax also faces charges of third-degree child abuse and offensive touching.

It’s unclear if the suspects have entered pleas or retained attorneys to speak on their behalf.

An investigation that began in February showed that employees working in an elementary school classroom for students with special needs within the Smyrna School District would allegedly “throw objects at the students, yell at them, and call them names,” per the release.

According to police, Johnson and Donahue are accused of feeding Takis with hot sauce to a student with special needs in late 2022 knowing the child had a digestive disability.

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