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According to California authorities, two students accused of baking cookies with human ashes and feeding them to their classmates will not be subject to criminal charges.
"We let the school solve the problem with the miners and the families," Lieutenant Paul Doroshov of the Davis Police Department told HuffPost. "It's basically, under the California Penal Code, a public nuisance."
Authorities opened an investigation into the case earlier this month, after a resource officer in Davis's Da Vinci Charter Academy learned that two students had used cremated remains as ingredients in a batch of Sugar cookies distributed on campus.
"It was claimed that the cookies they had cooked contained one of the [the students’] the grandparents cremated the ashes, "said Doroshov. "About nine students have consumed cookies but no physical discomfort has been reported."
The alleged incident, which allegedly took place on October 4, according to Doroshov, was only made public when an outraged student's parents contacted the FOX 40 News magazine in Sacramento on Monday.
"That blew me away," said the boy's mother, who allegedly agreed to speak on condition of anonymity. "I was really pushed back. I was upset at not being warned. "
The woman's son, who did not participate in the distribution of cookies, told the media that a student had boasted about it. The son told a school administrator that he had made a statement and then told him not to tell anyone.
The student's father stated that the way administrators treated her suggested that the school was "more concerned about protecting herself than protecting her students," Fox 40 News reported.
The Davis Unified School District only commented on the charges after Tuesday, after the Fox 40 report. A statement posted on the district's website reads as follows:
Students are safe and there is no health risk on the Da Vinci Charter campus or anyone involved … This recent case has been particularly difficult and we have responded appropriately, in the way the most respectful and dignified possible. Those who have been involved have remorse and it is now a personal family affair.
Several media have since reported that the Davis police were trying to verify that the cookies were contaminated. However, Doroshov told HuffPost that his department did not plan to have cookies tested.
"The evidence is based on interviews and the like," he said.
Even if the cookies contained cremated human ashes, the actions of the student would not be illegal, according to Doroshov.
"There is an obscure article in California that basically prohibits certain transfers of human remains, but it's kind of unconventional," he said. "I think this law was written with a different intention."
Doroshov refused to say whether the students accused of cooking the cookies had admitted to having committed a wrongdoing.
"I can say that everyone is cooperating," he said. "No one is trying to be elusive [and] we think we know the exact story. "
The case, added the lieutenant, looks nothing like what his agency has already investigated.
"It's at least a strange event," he said.
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