--- title: Florida 12 Year Olds Charged With Poisoning Teacher description: They're facing felony charges canonical: https://time.com/4240079/florida-middle-schoolers-poison-teacher/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-27T19:38:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:26:32.432Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Florida 12 Year Olds Charged With Poisoning Teacher og:description: They're facing felony charges og:url: https://time.com/4240079/florida-middle-schoolers-poison-teacher/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Florida 12 Year Olds Charged With Poisoning Teacher twitter:description: They're facing felony charges twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Florida 12-Year-Olds Charged With Poisoning Teacher by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Feb 27, 2016 7:38 PM CUT by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Feb 27, 2016 7:38 PM CUT Three Florida middle school students are facing felony charges for allegedly poisoning their teacher by spiking her soda with red pepper flakes, authorities said Friday. Jayne Morgan, a language arts teacher at Deltona Middle School in Volusia County, was sickened by her soft drink on Tuesday, but the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office wasn’t privy to the incident until Thursday, at which point an investigation was launched, according to a sheriff’s office [statement](https://www.facebook.com/VolusiaCountySheriff/posts/1051346668237868 "undefined"). Morgan, 52, had sent one of her 12-year-old students to the principal’s office on Monday “for dumping glue into another student’s backpack and for suspicion of stealing a laptop. . . [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/3-florida-middle-school-girls-accused-trying-poison-teacher-s-n527186?cid=par-time%5F20160227 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4240079/florida-middle-schoolers-poison-teacher/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4240079/florida-middle-schoolers-poison-teacher/"},"headline":"Florida 12-Year-Olds Charged With Poisoning Teacher","datePublished":"2016-02-27T19:38:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:26:32.432Z","description":"They're facing felony charges","url":"https://time.com/4240079/florida-middle-schoolers-poison-teacher/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4240079/florida-middle-schoolers-poison-teacher/","name":"Florida 12-Year-Olds Charged With Poisoning Teacher"}}]}] ```