Music teacher suspected of contaminating flutes with semen, roiling Southern California school districts

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Music teacher suspected of contaminating flutes with semen, roiling Southern California school districts
Doug Smith
Oct. 1, 2017
L.A. Times

Two Southern California school districts were giving conflicting messages over the weekend as they attempted to guide parents through a scare touched off last week by a state and federal investigation of a music specialist suspected of contaminating musical instruments with semen.

Responding to the probe, the Saugus Union School District in Los Angeles County sought help from parents to collect evidence in the investigation, which it said “is focusing on workshops where students made ‘flutes’ out of PVC pipe with a specific individual.”  ... Rest of story

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... Local, state and federal agencies were investigating a male music teacher who visited schools in Southern California through a program called Flutes Across the World, according to updates from the Saugus Union School District, which serves the Santa Clarita area.

“The performer distributes a flutelike musical instrument made of PVC pipe or bamboo to students during a music lesson, and the allegation is that he contaminated some of these instruments with semen,” Saugus Union Superintendent Joan Lucid said in an email to parents on Saturday. ...

It’s unclear what prompted the investigation or how school officials came to suspect that the flutes may have been contaminated. Authorities have not named the subject of the investigation. ...

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