Missouri Teacher Forced 6-Year-Old To Sit In Her Diarrhea

Lisa Skidmore, mother of a kindergarten student at Southwest School in Washburn, Mo., is outraged after her daughter's teacher forced her to wrap a trash bag around herself and sit in her own diarrhea, KY3-TV reports.

"They didn't even bother trying to clean her up or anything," Skidmore told the station. "She still had poop, diarrhea poop, coming out the back, up her front, down her legs."

The girl's father was almost too upset to talk about the incident, but said that he'd likely face criminal charges had he been the one to leave her sitting in her own mess like that.

According to the station, the class had been told to use the restroom before the testing period, so the teacher made the 6-year-old sit in the mess for the duration of the test and during the 20 minutes it took for her mother to drive to the school with a change of clothes.

With the girls' parents pushing to make sure this never happens at the school again, Superintendent Bob Walker told KY3 that district officials "regret what happened."

In March, Gonja Wolf, a high school art teacher in San Diego, was placed under investigation after a 14-year-old female student accused her of forcing her to urinate in a bucket inside the classroom instead of taking a bathroom break.

The girl filed a claim for damages to person or property, claiming the teacher made her do that in the presence of male classmates, and then empty the bucket in the classroom sink.

In January, a 7th grader at Klein ISD in Houston, Texas, claimed he was forced to urinate in a plastic bottle after his teacher refused to allow him to use the restroom.

Despite the student's testimony that he was denied a bathroom break, he still faced one month in "an alternative campus" as punishment, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Other school controversies:

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• John Rossi

  A Washington state student was terrorized in a bullying attack by peers -- <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/30/john-rosi-washington-midd_n_1841998.html?utm_hp_ref=school-bullying">and at some points, by the teacher</a>. The incidents occurred in February at a Gig Harbor middle school. Cell phone footage shows more than a dozen students dragging the then-eighth-grade boy around the classroom, carrying him by his arms and legs, burying him under chairs, writing on his feet and stuffing his socks in his mouth. The antics last about 15 minutes while teacher John Rosi watches, and later joins in.

• Texas Teachers

  A Houston, Texas teacher and teacher's aide have been removed from their classroom for allegedly disciplining their pre-K students by placing them in custodial closets <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/25/monster-closet-used-to-pu_n_1546426.html?utm_hp_ref=teachers" target="_hplink">they nicknamed "monster closets."</a>

• Laurie Bailey-Cutkomp

  Laurie Bailey-Cutkomp, a 47-year-old Zephyrhills High School science teacher in Zephyrhills, Fla., is under fire after<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/laurie-bailey-cutkomp-teacher-uses-dog-collar-to-punish-students_n_1506376.html?utm_hp_ref=teachers" target="_hplink"> photos of her students wearing dog collars as punishment</a> for bad behavior surfaced on Facebook.

• Louise Losos

  Clayton High School Principal Louise Losos resigned following a leave of absence after an accusation that Losos had created a Facebook profile <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/07/louise-losos-clayton-high_n_1495476.html?utm_hp_ref=teachers" target="_hplink">pretending to be a student named Suzy Harriston.</a>

• Patricia Mulholland

  A middle school teacher in South Carolina has been accused of dragging a student under a table during class, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/sc-teacher-facing-charges_0_n_1465762.html?utm_hp_ref=teachers" target="_hplink">telling the boy "this is what the Nazis do to Jews," police said.</a> The 12-year-old student said he got up to sharpen a pencil at Bluffton Middle School on Wednesday when Patricia Mulholland grabbed him by his collar and said, "come here, Jew," police said. The teacher then dragged him 10 feet under a table and made the comment about Nazis, according to police.

• North Carolina Teacher

  A state investigation was been opened at Hudson Middle School in Caldwell County, N.C., following allegations that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/north-carolina-student-cardboard-box_n_1524239.html?utm_hp_ref=teachers" target="_hplink">a teacher forced a student with special needs to sit in a cardboard box</a> as a disciplinary measure.

• Jack Conkling

  Jack Conkling, a Prairie Hills Middle School social studies teacher and Buhler High School assistant women's basketball coach in Buhler, Kan., is under fire <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/18/jack-conkling-teacher-writes-being-gay-just-like-being-a-murderer_n_1527608.html?utm_hp_ref=teachers" target="_hplink">after equating being gay to being a murderer</a> on his Facebook profile.

• New York Teachers

  Teachers at a Brooklyn elementary school are <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/30/teachers-accused-of-givin_n_1556621.html?utm_hp_ref=teachers" target="_hplink">accused of giving their students the answers on standardized tests</a>. In return for high scores on those tests, teachers at Public School 94 were allegedly offered smaller classes and fewer non-English-speaking students.

• George C. Marshall High School Teacher

  A Virginia high school English teacher was under investigation for allegedly asking the only black student in the class <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/18/george-c-marshall-high-sc_n_1358044.html" target="_hplink">to read a poem in a "blacker" manner</a>. Jordan Shumate, a ninth-grader at George C. Marshall High School in Falls Church, Va., says he was reading aloud Langston Hughes' "Ballad of the Landlord" when teacher Marilyn Bart interrupted him. "She told me, 'Blacker, Jordan -- c'mon, blacker. I thought you were black,'" Shumate said.

• Malibu Teacher

  A teacher at Malibu High School in Malibu, Calif., was under investigation after ninth-grade student Dionne Evans went to local authorities claiming the educator <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/01/dionne-evans-malibu-high-_n_1563647.html?utm_hp_ref=teachers" target="_hplink">slapped her six times for not bringing her notebook to class.</a>

• Georgia Teacher

  A kindergarten teacher in Georgia has stirred controversy after <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/05/bermuda-triangle-award_n_1571656.html?utm_hp_ref=teachers" target="_hplink">presenting one of her students with the "Bermuda Triangle Award," </a>honoring the student's desk -- or "the place where things go in but never come back out."

• Kathleen Pyles

  Kathleen Pyles, a math teacher at North End Middle School in Waterbury, Conn., was on paid leave while school officials investigate allegations that she addressed a black student with a racist remark. Parents and the NAACP spoke out during a Board of Education meeting, accusing Pyles of inappropriately <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/08/kathleen-pyles-connecticu_n_1580779.html?utm_hp_ref=teachers" target="_hplink">calling a student "black boy" when she couldn't remember his name</a>.

• Union Elementary School Official

  Parents in Clinton, North Carolina, were outraged after an assistant principal <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/19/third-grader-strip-search_n_1609415.html?utm_hp_ref=teachers" target="_hplink">gave a third-grader a strip search</a> there. The Union Elementary School official believed the boy had stolen money and ordered him to strip to his boxers.

• Florida Teacher

  A Tampa Bay, Fla. school teacher <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/20/florida-teacher-suspended_n_1613309.html?utm_hp_ref=teachers" target="_hplink">was suspended for three days without pay </a>after allowing one of her students to write and present a speech that criticized a former Oakstead Elementary teacher by name.

• Matt Hansen

  Matt Hansen, a 38-year-old teacher for the Fort Zumwalt School District in O'Fallon, Mo., has been charged with felony possession of child pornography after a local cyber crimes unit found<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/26/matt-hansen-former-missouri-teacher-accused-of-taping-80-boys-undressing_n_1628926.html?utm_hp_ref=teachers" target="_hplink"> he allegedly videotaped 80 male students undressing</a>.

• Stephan Hudson

  Diane John, the mother whose 15-year-old son suffered a beatdown at the hands of much larger teacher Stephan Hudson, sought criminal charges against the offending public school dean and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/29/brooklyn-mother-suing-cit_n_1637930.html?utm_hp_ref=teachers" target="_hplink">sued the city for $5.5 million</a> after being shown surveillance footage of the incident.

• Steve McClenning and Billie Madewell

  The Scholars Academy Principal Steve McClenning and assistant Billie Madewell <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/27/arizona-principal-caught-in-make-out-session-fired_n_1459968.html" target="_hplink">have both lost their jobs</a> at the Quartzsite, Ariz. school after the two were caught passionately making out on video.

• Audrey Grabarkiewicz

  Audrey Grabarkiewicz, a 46-year-old preschool teacher at Lake Bowen Baptist Church in Spartanburg, S.C., <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/01/audrey-grabarkiewicz-teacher-avoids-jail-for-teen-sex-parties_n_1641676.html" target="_hplink">managed to avoid jail time</a> despite being arrested for throwing alcohol and sex parties for teens last year.

• Texas Teacher

  A Texas teacher lost her job after ordering <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/16/district-texas-teacher-ha_n_1601980.html?utm_hp_ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">more than 20 kindergartners to line up and hit a classmate</a> accused of being a bully. The teacher at a suburban San Antonio school is accused of orchestrating the slugfest after a younger teaching colleague went to her seeking suggestions on how to discipline the 6-year-old, according to a police report from the Judson Independent School District.

• Marcy Rubenstein

  Bronx teacher Marcy Rubenstein allegedly duct-taped a rowdy student to his chair while other classmates laughed and pushed him around, after she became irritated that the student <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/19/teacher-duct-tapes-studen_n_1609459.html?utm_hp_ref=school-bullying" target="_hplink">repeatedly got up during a test.</a>

• Samuel Fies

  Indiana teacher Samuel Fies <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/14/samuel-fies-indiana-teach_n_1148383.html?ref=Education&ir=Education" target="_hplink">was fired from Highland High School</a> after he was arrested and charged in December 2011 with multiple counts of sexual misconduct with a minor, child molestation, criminal confinement, child solicitation and attempted child seduction.

• John Freshwater

  Ohio science teacher John Freshwater was fired in early 2011 after being accused of preaching religious beliefs in class and keeping a Bible on his desk. Freshwater appealed the firing, but <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/john-freshwater-ohio-scie_n_997996.html" target="_hplink">a judge upheld the decision in October 2011.</a>

• Jill Lyle

  Jill Lyle, a substitute teacher in Santa Fe, N.M. was fired in November 2011 after she was<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/20/jill-lyle-santa-fe-substi_n_972437.html" target="_hplink"> reportedly found passed out drunk while on the job.</a>

• Sean Loftis

  Sean Loftis, a Florida substitute teacher who starred in gay porn films under the pseudonym Collin O'Neal, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/24/sean-loftis-gay-porn-star-fired-teacher_n_935199.html" target="_hplink">lost his teaching job in October 2011</a> after his X-rated activities came to light.

• Andrew Harris

  Andrew Harris, a science teacher at Glacier Creek Middle School in Cross Plains, Wis. first lost his job for looking at porn at work. The school district decided in March 2012, however, that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/andrew-harris-teacher-who_n_1317517.html" target="_hplink">he would be offered to be reinstated and given back pay and benefits estimated at $200,000.</a>

• Bernadette Camacho

  Bernadette Camacho, a 39-year-old teacher in Queens, New York, was fired from Hillcrest High School in January 2012 after reportedly telling students they had their <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/03/bernadette-camacho-former-teacher-fired-for-badmouthing-students_n_1181678.html" target="_hplink">"brains in their ass" and attempting to bribe them to keep quiet.</a>

• Unnamed Teacher

  An unnamed teacher at Tallulah Elementary School in Tallulah, La. was fired in March 2012 after she failed to notice two third grade students <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/23/third-graders-oral-sex-tallulah-elementary-school_n_1375399.html" target="_hplink">allegedly having oral sex under a classroom table.</a>

• D.C. Teacher

  A teacher at the Friendship Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. was fired after she <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/13/christian-washington-taped-to-chair-by-teacher_n_1341817.html" target="_hplink">allegedly taped Christian Washington, a 9-year-old vision-impaired student, to his classroom chair.</a>

• D.C. Teacher

  A Washington, D.C. teacher was fired in March 2012 for <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/teacher-fired-for-giving-_n_1322173.html" target="_hplink">sending home violent, morbid and traumatizing math problems</a> to third graders at Center City Public Charter School's Trinidad campus.

• Brooke Harris

  Teacher Brooke Harris says she was let go from her position at Pontiac Academy for Excellence in Pontiac, Mich., in March <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/10/brooke-harris-michigan-teacher-fired-trayvon-martin-fundraiser_n_1414870.html?ref=Education&ir=Education" target="_hplink">after attempting to help students organize a hoodie-themed fundraiser for the family of Trayvon Martin.</a> In this AP photo, a man wears a hoodie and a scarf with the likeness of Trayvon Martin during a "One Thousand Hoodies March for Trayvon Martin" event Thursday, March 29, 2012 in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Renee Jones Schneider)

• Jarretta Hamilton

  Jarretta Hamilton, a fourth grade teacher, was fired from the Southland Christian School in St. Cloud, Fla. in 2009 because the child she was carrying <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/10/jarretta-hamilton-teacher_n_1416122.html?ref=Education&ir=Education" target="_hplink">was conceived two months before she and her husband married. </a>

• Emily Herx

  Indiana teacher Emily Herx says she was fired from her Roman Catholic school -- St. Vincent de Paul school in Fort Wayne -- <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/catholic-school-ivf_n_1453524.html?1335557656" target="_hplink">for using in vitro fertilization to try to get pregnant.</a>

• Meredith Burris Pruitt

  31-year-old Meredith Burris Pruitt was fired in March 2012 from Forestview High School in Gastonia, N.C. after she was accused of selling, and employing students to help sell,<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/03/meredith-burris-pruitt-teacher-arrested-for-using-students-to-sell-drugs_n_1400135.html" target="_hplink"> prescription drugs around the school.</a>

• Jeffrey Robert Sears Jr.

  Jeffrey R. Sears Jr., a 29-year-old former teacher at Glen Burnie High School, faces more than 50 years in prison after allegedly having sex with <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/17/jeffrey-robert-sears-jr-accused-of-sex-acts-with-students-at-school-in-car_n_1432069.html" target="_hplink">15 and 16-year-old students over the course of two years.</a>

• Megan Denman

  Megan Denman, a 29-year-old social sciences teacher at Hoover High School in Fresno, Calif. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/12/megan-denman-teacher-arrested-for-having-oral-sex-with-student_n_1421237.html" target="_hplink">was placed on paid leave in the spring of 2012</a> for allegedly performing oral sex on and sleeping with a student who was under the age of 18.

• Stacie Halas

  California teacher Stacie Halas was fired from Richard B. Haydock Intermediate School in April 2012 for<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/stacie-halas-fired-porn-film_n_1437467.html?1335557660" target="_hplink"> performing in a pornographic video.</a>

Comments

[NiCole Gipson]

04:17 PM on 04/14/2013

This is what happens when too much emphasis is placed on MAP testing and not the human decency it requires to teach a child.

[Fran04]

08:40 PM on 05/21/2012

This teacher should be fired. This "little" incident will have lasting effect on this child. This girl will have to deal with the humiliation the next year and the next year; this teacher will have the opportunity to subject another child to her brand of teaching. If I was parent of child who was assigned to this class, I would insist that my child be transfer out of her class. This is an impressionable time in a child's life. This teacher shows that she does not know this important fact.

[lobstur]

09:16 AM on 04/22/2012

why is half the article about completely different incidents? there's just no story here, is there?

[Jill from NYC]

11:40 PM on 04/21/2012

They should have rubbed the teacher's face in it. She is a cruel, sadistic person.

[rav1267]

08:07 PM on 04/20/2012

They should make the teacher put her face in the dodo

[kimcrdr]

04:43 PM on 04/20/2012

OMG what ever happened to going to the nurses office and getting cleaned up, atleast she wouldnt have had to sit in the classroom the whole time, this is awful and I think the teacher needs to be wrapped in a trashbag full of crap and see how she likes it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[katasong]

04:35 PM on 04/20/2012

I have a 6 year old and I cannot imagine how humiliated and upset she would be if someone forced her to go through this. It's too bad someone can't force that idiotic teacher to have no bathroom breaks so that she can get a taste of the kind of discomfort and embarassment she inflicted on that poor child! I sincerely hope that the administration punishes the teacher. This kind of thing is why so many good parents are pulling their kids from public school - caring more about following a stupid testing rule than caring for a child - unforgivable.

[XV8 Crisis Suit]

07:17 PM on 04/20/2012

You know what's more humiliating than that? Having the whole nation know that this happened to you.

[djuno1966]

04:30 PM on 04/20/2012

just wrong, no matter what

[MamaBird62]

04:17 PM on 04/20/2012

"Many kids right now are taking Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) tests, the state standardized testing required by law. Those tests start in third grade, but the superintendent says the reason the teacher was sticking so closely to MAP testing guidelines, even for a kindergartner, is because she was trying to simulate the stringent rules to prepare students for what's to come."

This teacher needs to go. Three years advance preparation of "testing environment" for 6 year olds?? That is stupidity at its finest. Zero common sense, zero compassion. She needs to be in a different line of work, where conformity at all cost is the most important thing. Maybe an office job at the IRS?

[phontphoneez]

04:34 PM on 04/20/2012

Why do you Huff Po moderators intentionally NOT approve posters who provide the logical reasons for this situation?

It's bad enough your site publishes only one side of a story to create hype and emotion, but to not let people give reasons WHY things happen is irresponsible and criminal.

This teacher's LIFE has been threatened because sites like this intentionally make her look evil, despite the fact the school knows there is no reason to discipline her..

Common sense would say if she was that evil and negligent, she already would be placed on leave. Abusive teachers are IMMEDIATELY removed from the class and can only return after an investigation clears her.

The one lacking common sense is you.

I doubt you will approve this message.

[MamaBird62]

05:29 PM on 04/20/2012

Well, hello. I have nothing whatsoever to do with whether your posts get published, or how quickly.
You might want to check with the superintendent there in Missouri, who acknowledged that the teacher handled this inappropriately, and that she was under NO obligation to simulate the "stringent environment" that accompanies state tests for THIRD GRADE AND UP.
Total lack of judgement and common sense. I don't think she belongs in a classroom.

[Jamie Lechner]

02:57 PM on 05/01/2012

I haven't been out of the public school system long. Eleven years this month, to be exact. And while I was in high school, a teacher of ours was accused (rightfully so, I might add) of sexual harassment by a number of female students. He had been at it for many years. While I was not one of the accusers, I was interviewed and he was clearly guilty (for many, many years prior to this as well). He was the female physical education teacher as well as the female basketball and softball coach. He was found guilty but due to tenure, not only was he NOT "let go" but he was advanced to principal of the high school when the current one retired!
So, for you to say that your reasoning is "common sense" ... well, I can attest that you are DEAD wrong from personal experience alone.

You need to make sure that you know what you are talking about before you go judging someone for their opinions.
By the by, I am not so far from Washburn and this does NOT surprise me as that school has always proven problematic when I've had to deal with them. From finding empty condom boxes/wrappers scattered about the locker rooms during a 6th grade basketball tournament I participated in there to a number of their students attempting to injure myself and a friend while attending a basketball game there that was their homecoming and they lost to our team.

[CoronaDischarge]

02:15 PM on 04/20/2012

While there are some politicians who I think it would be appropriate to impose this on, a 6 year old not getting a hall pass is a little harsh.

[gomudhens]

01:58 PM on 04/24/2012

I think you may have gotten it backwards - the article says "According to the station, the class had been told to use the restroom before the testing period" - so the question that I don't see answered in the article was, did she refuse to go? As disgusting as this is, you can't force someone to go to the toilet and take care of business...not saying it couldn't have been handled differently, but your assumption of "a 6 year old not getting a hall pass" appears completely incorrect.

[zakmarc]

01:56 PM on 04/20/2012

I don't blame the teacher. She did what she had to do and I'm sure she didn't want the child to have to endure what she did. The problem this article highlights is the testing process that is not developmentally appropriate. Why are they administering these types of tests to 6 year olds in the first place? Have none of these people ever taken a class on childhood development? This is a symptom of a sick system that needs a complete overhaul.

[MamaBird62]

04:16 PM on 04/20/2012

She was NOT required to do this. Kindergarten students in MO do not even take the state tests. This teacher claims she was trying to "simulate" the environment students would face 3 years later, when they ARE required to take state tests. She needs to be fired. Zero common sense or compassion for students. She doesn't even seem to understand the maturity level differences between 6 and 9 year olds. Idiot.

[katasong]

04:40 PM on 04/20/2012

I absolutely blame the teacher. I teach, and I would be willing to put my job on the line before I would cause distress to a child - and I am certain that being forced to sit in your own excrement would cause distress, not to mention the fact that this girl could have gotten a bladder infection from e coli bacteria found in feces. The teacher should be punished in some way or else this kind of thing will too easily happen again.

[WowJustWowReally]

01:25 PM on 04/23/2012

Now you are the kind of teacher that our schools need more of. I agree completely. As a former daycare director/teacher it doesn't matter what the testing rules are if it comes down to losing my job or causing a child humiliation and distress then hand me my walking papers now. That teacher definitely needs punished.

[KarmaPatrol]

11:59 AM on 04/20/2012

Some days it just pays to ditch.

[musicmasterno1]

12:02 PM on 04/20/2012

or in this case, do the "Pampers-scamper".

[shaysta]

11:02 AM on 04/20/2012

Where does it say the child asked to go to the bathroom? It only says that they were supposed to go before the upper grades started their testing. It's kindergarten and accidents happen(children at this age will sometimes forget to ask till it's too late)...the other children probably just shrugged it off and really didn't care. And would have been no big deal...but the parents. Have turned this into a media frenzy. I mean really... who calls the media and tells them "my daughter pooped her pants in school and make sure the whole world knows about it". And oh yeah tell them the name of the school and our last name so there is no mistaking who pooped her pants..Way to turn something that would have been forgotten about in a day to something that will embarass and follow your daughter through the rest of her school career. And If they had cleaned her up (with no change of clothes) were they just supposed to let her stand there naked till her parents showed up?

[musicmasterno1]

11:39 AM on 04/20/2012

Shaysta....how dare you make sense and use logic? You're supposed to load the bullets into the gun and shoot the teacher like the rest of the "good" parents!

Seriously though......we tell our children never ever ever ever let a stranger touch them and we tell caregivers to never ever ever let a child out of their sight.

Which rule did the parents expect to be broken? The "no touch" rule, the "never alone" rule, the bio-hazard rule that prevents teachers from touching poo?

It amazes me that people can read a story like this and believe that some evil teacher forced a child to sit in her own poop.

Any intelligent parent (you are one) would say "hold on.....there has to be a reason for this aside from 'she's an abuser!"

Great post and thanks for being one of the few who ACTUALLY used common sense.

[XV8 Crisis Suit]

12:08 PM on 04/20/2012

If having your child poop their pants in front of 30 kids is embarrassing, imagine having a whole nation know it...

[GracieGiraffe]

12:17 PM on 04/20/2012

You're right - I had not thought of it but you're right!

If you downplay things with kids, they do forget about it. But the parents here smell money (pun intended).

[albertgraphics]

10:50 AM on 04/20/2012

You don't let me go to the bathroom? Ok, pull my finger.

[albertgraphics]

10:49 AM on 04/20/2012

That'll teach her!!