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Teacher Accused of Feeding Hot Sauce-Soaked Crayons to Autistic Child Being Reinstated

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A judge has ordered that a special needs teacher in Florida who was fired after she was accused of feeding an autistic child crayons soaked in hot sauce be reinstated. 

From ABC News:

A Florida elementary school teacher who was fired for feeding an autistic child hot sauce soaked crayons is being re-instated on the orders of a judge who rejected the school district's appeal to keep her out of the classroom.

Lillian Gomez was fired from her job at Sunrise Elementary School in Kissimmee, Fla., in February 2012 after school officials found out that Gomez had allegedly put jumbo-sized crayons in a cup and soaked them for days in hot sauce before moving them to a bag that was labeled with the student's name.

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