Student Sniffing Hand Gel No Crime, Texas DA Says
January 31st, 2008 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
A Texas middle-school student found sniffing a teacher’s alcohol-based hand sanitizer was not committing a crime, prosecutors in Denton County have ruled.
The Dallas Morning News reported Jan. 26 that the 15-year-old seventh-grader at Killian Middle School in Lewisville picked up a bottle of hand sanitizer from a teacher’s desk, rubbed it on his hands, and sniffed it. The boy was sent to the principal’s office, subjected to in-school suspension, and then referred to police on suspicion that he was inhaling the gel to get high.
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