Report: Ex-cons pay school children $5 for clean urine samples

[matcom]

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The going rate for a clean urine sample from a child at North Baltimore’s Dallas Nicholas Elementary School is $5 these days. At least that’s what parolees and probationers visiting the nearby state Division of Parole and Probation are offering, parents and school administrators say. The school, which has about 425 kids in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, is located right across the street from the Parole and Probation building.

“It has happened twice that we know of in the month of June,” says Dallas Nicholas Principal Irma Johnson, who has been at the school for seven years. “This doesn’t include the times before.” Johnson says she and other school administrators have complained in the past to the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, which runs the Division of Parole, that kids were being solicited for clean urine. And she says she is certain there have been instances in which kids didn’t report to teachers or parents that it was happening.

Division of Parole spokeswoman Elizabeth Bartholomew says that “we’ve never been able to corroborate that story” about the urine solicitation.

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[Dirty Hippie]

1. I knew a middle school kid who earned all of his spending $ this way.

[Dookus]

2. It's nice to see kids

making a living.

[underpants]

3. Dumb punks don't know it is worth at least 5 times that

Morans.