Saturday, May 22, 2010

Teacher Gets Probation for Biting Man's Ear - Updated

(Northfield, Minnesota) Sixth-grade teacher at Northfield Middle School, Susan Mwarabu, was prosecuted and sentenced for biting off part of the ear of restaurant customer Christopher Hough.

In a letter to the media, Mwarabu offered no explanation of why she did it.
“Does it really matter why it happened?,” wrote Susan Mwarabu, 30, who was sentenced Thursday to serve 60 days either on home monitoring or at the Ramsey County Workhouse. “Isn’t it bad enough that it even happened?" […]

“Being drunk is not an excuse that I am willing to use,” Mwarabu wrote, later saying that she is “shamed and constantly guilty” about what happened to Hough. […]

“That I erred in the choices that I made that night is quite clear and I will experience the consequences of my actions for some time to come. My hope of course, is that I can set an example for others in the future so that we can get away from being a society of drumming up excuses to one that owns up to our mistakes, fixes them and finds solutions to problems.”
Mwarabu received five years of probation during which she is prohibited from consuming alcohol.

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Teacher Allegedly Bites Man's Ear
[Previous 3/17/10 post]
(Northfield, Minnesota) A 30-year-old sixth-grade teacher at Northfield Middle School, Susan Mukuhi Mwarabu, has been charged with third-degree assault for allegedly biting off part of a man's ear.
According to the criminal complaint, an apparently intoxicated Mwarabu was eating with friends at a St. Paul diner shortly before 4:30 a.m. Sunday when a man at another table commented about one of Mwarabu’s companions.

Mwarabu allegedly approached the man, twice leaning down and licking the man’s face before leaning in a third time and biting off a piece of his ear.

When diner employees told Mwarabu and her friends to leave the diner, police reported Mwarabu picked the piece of the man’s ear off the ground and put it in her mouth.
A court appearance is scheduled for April 5.

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