Teacher charged for making boy clean urinal with bare hands
FORT LAUDERDALE – A charter school teacher in Coral Springs, Fla. who is accused of ordering a 10-year-old student to clean a urinal with his bare hands bonded out of jail Thursday morning.
“I didn’t do anything illegal,” said Jennifer Forshey as she left the facility.
CBS Miami reported Forshey allegedly instructed the boy to clean a dirty urinal she thought he had clogged, according to the Coral Springs Police Department.
Forshey, who teaches third grade at Broward Community Charter School West, according to the school’s website, is accused of battery on a child by exposing the child to urine, the station reported.According to the arrest report, Forshey claimed the boy clogged the drain in a urinal in the boys’ bathroom with paper towels. She ordered him to remove the paper towels, filled with urine from other students, with his hands.
“Victim's hands were saturated in what smelled like urine from the urinal and the paper towel that was in the urinal,” the police report reads.
The 10-year-old boy told police Forshey did not provide him with any safety equipment to clean the urinals.
The student also said there was no soap in the bathroom to clean his hands, CBS Miami reported.
Investigators interviewed Forshey and she admitted to the allegations and showed no remorse, according to the police report.
“She only thinks what she did was wrong because she is in trouble for it. Otherwise, she does not see anything wrong with exposing a child to urine,” the report reads.