Teacher Burned Boy's Butt, Cops Say

ALLEN, Texas - A former teacher at Allen’s Lowery Freshman Center faces formal charges for allegedly burning a 14-year-old mentally disabled boy on the buttocks with a cooking pan.

A Collin County grand jury indicted 45-year-old Susanne Means earlier this month on injury to a child charges.

Police said Means was a special education teacher at the freshman center in March when the incident allegedly happened.

The mentally disabled boy’s father told police his son had two 12-inch circular “scald” marks on his buttocks. The boy said Means had burned him with a hot pan, according to the arrest warrant affidavit.

Means denied hurting the boy, but police said cookware that could have caused the burn marks was found in a kitchen in her classroom. The affidavit also states she failed a polygraph test.

Means resigned from the school district earlier this month.