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A Wisconsin principal suspended a 12-year-old student because she believed she was selling sex toys to other kids - but it turns out they were just 'water snake wigglies', which can benefit autistic children.
Frances Halbeck, who attends Trinity Lutheran School in Racine, was banned from classes for three days when administrators learned about her sale for charity, according to TMJ4.
Halbeck said she received permission from her homeroom teacher to sell the toys in between class.
Her father Milt said they are simply ‘bags filled with water'. But the school thought they were something far more explicit.Frances said the sale of the wigglies, priced at $1 each, was to benefit autistic children.
‘It just calms you when you touch it,’ she said. ‘You squeeze it, it’s cold, and it’s hard to hold sometimes.’
But school administrators didn’t see it that way.
‘In your wildest imaginations, no adult could possibly view this as a sex toy, this is a water-filled bag,’ Milt Habeck, the father of the girl, said.
Nonetheless, the principal of the school, Pamela Amling, saw fit to suspend Halbeck.
She said she was pulled from a basketball game by the principal, who admonished her in front of her peers.