Student unknowingly guzzled 'hard seltzer' from teacher's 'tumbler' mug that she was secretly sipping on in class, then fell and hit her head, cops and parents say

A Utah pupil who is developmentally delayed drank from her teacher's "stainless alloy tumbler" mug, which had hard seltzer successful it that the pedagogue was secretly sipping connected successful class, according to cops and the child's parents.

The student, Flor Perry, coiled up falling down astatine her Farmington school and hitting her caput aft sipping from the tumbler, which allegedly belonged to Katherine Meatoga, the girl's parents say. "There was nary mode of telling however overmuch she consumed," Flor's mother, Kim Perry, explained during an interrogation with section NBC affiliate KSL.

"She's developmentally delayed, the property of a 2-year-old," Perry said astir Flor, who is biologically 21 years aged and has a uncommon familial illness called 1p36 deletion syndrome, which has led to her being nonverbal.

"We were told that her teacher had been inebriated astatine school," Perry said.

Kim and Devin Perry person already had to spell done an alleged lawsuit of maltreatment that Flor experienced successful 2022 astatine the hands of different teacher astatine a antithetic school, according to the couple. Now, they say, they're forced to woody with a akin situation.

"Here we spell again," Devin Perry exclaimed. "This happened doubly to our daughter. How galore much incidents are going connected that are not being reported connected and divulged to parents?"

Meatoga was arrested and charged with possession oregon depletion of an alcoholic beverage astatine school, a people B misdemeanor, successful transportation with the March 18 hard seltzer incident, KSL reports.

Meatoga was employed by the Vista Education Center successful the Davis School District astatine the time. The territory says she has since resigned. A territory spokesperson confirmed to KSL that Meatoga was drinking "hard seltzer successful a stainless alloy tumbler" erstwhile Flor "took possession of the employee's mug" and drank from it.

"The Davis School District and our assemblage person precocious expectations for educators," the spokesperson said. "Unfortunately, successful this circumstance, an worker violated that trust. We bash not tolerate the possession oregon depletion of intoxicant connected schoolhouse premises."

The territory did not respond to Law&Crime's requests for remark Monday.

Flor's parents accidental she was adopted from Ecuador erstwhile she was 7 aft Kim Perry met her portion moving astatine an orphanage erstwhile Flor was a baby.

"I conscionable fell successful emotion with her," Kim Perry told KSL. "She had a saccharine property backmost then."

Flor's parents accidental that portion she knows 20 antithetic manus signs that she uses to communicate, it was intolerable for the Perrys to cognize what had happened without being told by section officials.

"The territory said they didn't archer america due to the fact that they didn't person a witnesser study until respective days later," Devin Perry said. "These are vulnerable, nonverbal students who can't travel location and say, 'Hey, thing weird happened astatine schoolhouse today.' We're trusting that the territory is taking attraction of them and being unfastened with america astir things that occur."

Meatoga is owed to look successful tribunal connected May 5.