FEBRUARY 20--A Florida teacher was arrested yesterday and charged with battery for allegedly ordering a 10-year-old student to unclog a urinal in the bathroom of a Coral Springs elementary school. 
 
 According to cops, Jennifer King Forshey, 58, ordered the child to use his bare hands to remove a wad of soggy paper towels from the urinal. The boy, who attends Broward Community Charter School, told cops that the paper towels were soaked with someone else’s urine. 
 
 As detailed in a Coral Springs Police Department report, the child told investigators that Forshey, a third grade teacher, had accused him earlier this month of clogging the urinal. She then allegedly ordered him to “use his hands to remove all the paper towel product in the drain of the urinal.” 
 
 The boy said that he held a dry paper towel in his hand as he sought to remove the soggy paper towels, but “the paper and urinal were wet enough to seep through the paper towel,” leaving his hands “saturated in what smelled like urine,” according to the report. The bathroom, the child reported, “had no soap in it.” 
 
 A teacher interviewed by police said that he saw Forshey (seen above) instruct the boy to remove the paper towels from the urinal. The school’s principal said that the child “came to his office looking for soap because his hands smelled of urine.” 
 
 Following her arrest yesterday for felony battery of a child, Forshey reportedly acknowledged directing the boy to unclog the urinal. “She only thinks what she did was wrong because she is in trouble for it,” cops reported. “Otherwise, she does not see anything wrong with exposing a child to urine.” 
 
 After being booked into the Broward County jail, Forshey was released on $1000 bond. (2 pages) ||||| A Broward Community Charter School teacher was arrested after police say she made a student clean a urinal with his bare hands. NBC 6's Justin Finch spoke with parents dropping their children off at the school. 
 
 A South Florida teacher has been arrested after police said she forced a 10-year-old to unclog a urinal with his bare hands. 
 
 Jennifer Forshey, 58, was charged with battery of a child by exposure to urine, according to a Coral Springs arrest report. 
 
 Forshey was booked into jail Wednesday and later released on $1,000 bond. 
 
 "I did not do anything illegal," Forshey said as she left the jail. 
 
 Police said Forshey, a teacher at Broward Community Charter School, accused the boy of clogging the urinal with paper towels. She then ordered him to use his hands and a paper towel to remove all the paper from the drain, the report said. 
 
 Officials noted the boy's hands were saturated in "what smelled like urine" from the urinal and that the bathroom had no soap in it. 
 
 Forshey did not give the child safety equipment to clean the urinal, police said. 
 
 The boy told police the urine was not his and that he did not know who had clogged the urinal. 
 
 Forshey admitted to making the boy clean the urine, but she only thought what she did was wrong because she got in trouble, authorities said in the report. 
 
 Broward Community Charter School issued a statement saying it acknowledges what occurred and that Forshey was reprimanded. 
 
 The victim's mother, Jenay Roberts, did not want to provide a statement Thursday, but attorney Joshua Hertz released the following statement on her behalf: 
 
 "The only reason we are bringing this story to the public is to find out if any other child has been treated in this way before. We want to protect this child and possibly any other children that may have been subjected to this form or corporal and unmoral punishment. My client wants to find out why a teacher would allow this to happen. She also asks for her and her son's privacy to be respected and wants her son to retain a normal life back at the school." 
 
 Word of Forshey's release did not set well with some parents dropping their children off at the school Thursday morning. 
 
 "That teacher should go back to jail. That's not cool," said parent Mark Henrice. 
 
 Others believe it was a bad call made by an otherwise good teacher. 
 
 "She used really bad judgement, but it's a really good school. I hope it doesn't reflect on the school," parent George Vitieri said. 
 
 At Forshey's home Wednesday night, a close family friend and co-worker said Forshey was like a mentor to her. 
 
 The woman, who only wanted to be identified as Debbie, said she loved walking into Forshey's classroom because it was so cozy. She also talked about her dedication to teaching. 
 
 "She would literally spends nights at the library finding things to do, you know, fun things to do to interact, not just your boring way of teaching," she said. 
 
 What Debbie heard on the news came as a shock. She said it's out of character for a woman who does so much for her students, including spend her own money. 
 
 "She buys curriculum, she buys games. I mean, I've been with her when she buys all these incentives for the children," she said. "She was actually the main one to get us to like, you know, more positive reinforcement things like that."
– A veteran teacher in Florida faces felony charges of battery of a child for meting out an unusual punishment. Police say 58-year-old Jennifer Forshey accused a 10-year-old boy of deliberately clogging a urinal with paper towels, and ordered him to get them out of the drain, reports NBC Miami. She didn't give him any tools or guidance, however, so he used his bare hands and a dry paper towel, and his hands soon reeked of urine—not his own, say police. To make matters worse, that particular bathroom had no soap, which led the kid to go to the principal's office looking for some, which led to the charges being filed. Forshey willingly caused the boy "to project his hands into a urinal with unknown persons (sic) urine expelled in it, causing his hands to absorb the urine," says the police report cited by the Smoking Gun. In other urinal news, a Pizza Hut worker lost his job after using his restaurant's kitchen sink as a substitute.