4:56 PM EST, January 31, 2008
In a bizarre twist on the standard school bomb threat storyline, a fourth grade teacher at a Warminster, Bucks County elementary school was charged Thursday with orchestrating a campaign of bomb threats in October that police think was motivated by unhappiness with her classroom assignment.
Student bomb threats have become almost common place at area schools.
But the arrest Thursday of Susan Romanyszyn, 45, of Nevarc Road, Warminster was highly unusual, said school violence experts.
Romanyszyn, a Longstreth Elementary School teacher who is accused of scrawling childish threats on school property and notebook paper and even planting a plastic bottle filled with nails and a white powdery substance in a 5th grader's desk, faces 17 charges of terroristic threats, a felony that can result in up to 10 years in prison.
"This was a woman who was entrusted with teaching students and providing a safe environment for students, and instead as it turns out, she's actually putting a deal of fear in the community, the school and the students in her school," said Bucks County District Attorney Michelle Henry.
Romanyszyn was in Bucks County Prison Thursday attempting to raise 10 percent of $1 million bail.
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