A Florida school principal has been charged after around 100 children were found at a house party at her home.
Police were called to the Roosevelt Elementary School teacher Elizabeth Hill-Brodigan’s address, where youths were drinking, in Cocoa Beach on 19 January, according to Sky News’ partner network NBC.
Body camera footage shows Karly Anderson, who was then a third-grade teacher at the same school, appearing to slur her words as she talks to an officer about the party.
“There was, like, 200 kids here, drinking,” the officer says, before Anderson says: “I’ve already known.”
Anderson denies being drunk after the officer says he can “smell it” and at one point he says: “You’re here with your boss, having a party with 200 kids who are drinking! Get out of my face!”
Police said there were around 100 juveniles at the party with one teenager on the front lawn so drunk he needed treatment.
Hill-Brodigan has been charged with one count of child neglect, five counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and one count of holding an open house party, according to the state attorney’s office.
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Anderson has been charged with one count of disorderly conduct and one count of disorderly intoxication.
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State Attorney William Scheiner said: “Florida’s laws dealing with open house parties and underage drinking are meant to keep our young people and communities safe.
“These laws are in place to deter the conduct that exposes our youth to harm and gives rise to these criminal charges.
“When laws are violated, the state attorney’s office stands with law enforcement, the school board and the community we serve to hold the offenders accountable and ensure the safety of our youth.”
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Both were also suspended from their jobs after the incident.
A lawyer representing Anderson told NBC’s affiliate WESH of Orlando she had nothing to do with the party and had returned to Hill-Brodigan’s home after dinner to find students leaving.
