Tehachapi Unified School District animal abuse case sparks conversation
TEHACHAPI, Calif. - Current and former employees of Tehachapi Unified School District tell 23ABC they believe district staff instructed maintenance employees to carry out animal abuse.
The employees say the so-called 'box of horrors' may only be the beginning -- and now they want the district to come clean about how nuisance animals were being dealt with.
"My boss made a remark that we would make it so they never reproduced," said Kris Harding, a Tehachapi High School custodian.
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A former maintenance employee for the district didn't want to be identified as he told us how he was advised to deal with nuisance animals on school grounds. He says he was told to dunk the animals in water until they drowned, put them in a trash bag and throw them away.
"I refused one time and got yelled at by the maintenance supervisor's secretary to do it," said the former employee.
"If you're going to take the time to trap these cats, why can't you call Animal Control to come and pick them up?" asked Harding. "I'm hoping that when this is all said and done that the district will follow the law and things will be done the way they're supposed to."
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