FROM HER HOME.
FROM A FIFTH GRADE CLASSROOM TO
A WARREN COUNTY COURTROOM.
TODAY FIVE POINTS ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL TEACHER AMY PANZEKA
PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO DRUG
CHARGES AND ENDANGERING
CHILDREN.
INVESTIGATORS SAY THE TEACHER
ALLOWED HER 15-YEAR-OLD SON TO
SELL AND USE ACID AND MARIJUANA
IN THEIR SPRINGBORO HOME.
>> AS FAR AS SOMEONE KNOWING
BETTER AND SOMEBODY WHO SHOULD
ASPIRE TO INSPIRE THESE
STUDENTS.
FOR HER TO BE SITTING BACK AND
KNOWING THAT KIDS ARE COMING
OVER TO THE HOUSE AND TAKING
HITS OF ACID, TRIPPING ON ACID
WHILE THEY'RE AT THE RESIDENCE,
THAT'S EXTRAORDINARLY
DISAPPOINTING.
KARIN: WHILE PANZEKA WAS
ARRAIGNED TODAY HER TEENAGE SON
WAS ALSO IN HANDCUFFS.
HE FACED A JUDGE IN JUVENILE
COURT, ACCUSED OF POSSESSING AND
TRAFFICKING DRUGS.
>> WE BELIEVE THAT THERE WERE
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 20 TO 30
JUVENILES WHO WERE BEING
TRAFFICKED LSD BY THIS
PARTICULAR JUVENILE WHO LIVED AT
THAT RESIDENCE AND THOSE 20 TO
30 INDIVIDUALS PRODOMNATLEY WERE
-- PREDOMINANTLY WERE SPRINGBORO
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
KARIN: NEWS OF THE ARRESTS CAME
AS A SURPRISE TO NEIGHBORS
LIVING ON SESAME STREET WERE
PANZEKA WAS CURRENTLY LIVING.
>> SHE SEEMED LIKE YOUR AVERAGE
EVERY DAY LADY SCHOOL TEACHER.
I DON'T JUDGE ANYBODY UNTIL THE
HAMMER COMES DOWN.
KARIN: SCHOOL STARTS THURSDAY IN
SPRINGBORO.
ADMINSTRATORS SAY PANZEKA, WHO
HAS BEEN WITH THE DISTRICT FOR
MORE THAN 20 YEARS, WILL NOT BE
RETURNING TO HER CLASSROOM JUST
YET.
>> BASED ON THOSE ALLEGATIONS,
WE DECIDED TODAY TO PUT HER ON
PAID ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE.
KARIN: PANZEKA WAS RELEASED ON
HER OWN RECOGNIZANCE.
HER SON IS BEING HELD IN
JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER
PENDING A RISK ASSESSMENT.
HE WASN'T A SPRINGBORO STUDENT
, BUT HOMESCHOOLED.
HIS ATTORNEY KEVIN HUGHES
DECLINED TO COMMENT TODAY
BECAUSE FORNSHELL SAYS MORE
CHARGES ARE COMING.
LIVE IN WARREN COUNTY, KARIN
JOHNSON, WLWT NEWS 5.
MIKE: A LOT OF KIDS IN A
CLASSROOM AFFECTED.
WHAT HAPPENS WITH THEM?
KARIN: THERE IS A PERMANENT SUB
WHO HAS ALREADY BEEN NAMED.
LETTERS WERE GOING OUT TO
PARENTS TODAY.
KIDS AND PARENTS WILL HAVE A
CHANCE TO MEET AND GREET THEIR
