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Flutes contaminated with semen sent to OC elementary schools

Posted by Debbie L. Sklar on September 30, 2017 in OC | Leave a response
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Fountain Valley School District sign. Courtesy of the district

State and postal officials investigated why several flutes that may have been possibly contaminated with semen were distributed to elementary school students in at least three Orange County school districts.

Emails were sent to parents of students Friday notifying them of the investigation regarding the flutes given to them by an instructor who also is under investigation.

The instructor, who was not identified, is an independent contractor, The Orange County Register reported. The suspect wasn’t an employee of the affected Orange County districts and worked at multiple school districts in Southern California, according to The Register.

District officials said the flutes were made of PVC plastic piping and a single wine cork and had an exterior that could be decorated.

“We were informed that an independent contractor who provided a music enrichment program to the fifth-grade classes at Courreges Elementary School, in June 2017 gave the students flutes/recorders that were potentially contaminated with bodily fluids,” Fountain Valley School District Superintendent Mark Johnson wrote in an email obtained by The Register.

Johnson wrote in the email that the flutes possibly went to children who participated in the Flutes Across the World Program and that Courreges Elementary School was the only site in the district that may have been affected.

The California Department of Justice is investigating the suspect, as is the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, though it was immediately unclear why, according to the newspaper.

Similar messages went to families of students at Sonora Elementary School in Costa Mesa and the Capistrano Unified School District, though the affected schools weren’t specified there.

Officials from some districts asked that families who find these flutes take them from the child’s possession and place them in a sealed paper bag to possibly preserve evidence, according to The Register.

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Fountain Valley police Sgt. Kham Vang told the newspaper that the department was collecting the flutes at its station at 10200 Slater Avenue.

Capistrano Unified School District officials were still working with law enforcement to determine how to collect the instruments, which are considered by the district to be “inappropriate and unsanitary” for a child to have contact with, according to The Register.

—City News Service

Flutes contaminated with semen sent to OC elementary schools was last modified: September 30th, 2017 by Debbie L. Sklar

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