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10-08-2007, 09:03 PM
VIENNA (Reuters) - Three Austrian boarding school students are under investigation on suspicion of serving tea laced with disinfectant and water from the toilet to a teacher who tried to discipline them, Austrian media said on Thursday.
The three youths, aged between 16 and 18, worked in the kitchen of a school in the southwestern village of Treffen from July to September, and prepared a pot of herbal tea for the teacher every morning, police said in a statement.
"The teenagers said she had been very strict with them and they wanted to pay her back, to which end they put an unknown amount of disinfectant in her tea," the statement said. Water from the toilet was added as well, public broadcaster ORF said.
It was only after kitchen staff lectured the teenagers on how dangerous the disinfectant was that one of them confessed to his mother, police said.
The teacher, 54, recently suffered from shortage of breath and a cough, and received medical treatment, said police. The three teenagers remain free while the inquiry proceeds.
Reuters
The three youths, aged between 16 and 18, worked in the kitchen of a school in the southwestern village of Treffen from July to September, and prepared a pot of herbal tea for the teacher every morning, police said in a statement.
"The teenagers said she had been very strict with them and they wanted to pay her back, to which end they put an unknown amount of disinfectant in her tea," the statement said. Water from the toilet was added as well, public broadcaster ORF said.
It was only after kitchen staff lectured the teenagers on how dangerous the disinfectant was that one of them confessed to his mother, police said.
The teacher, 54, recently suffered from shortage of breath and a cough, and received medical treatment, said police. The three teenagers remain free while the inquiry proceeds.
Reuters