The parents of a 10-year-old girl have demanded school officials determine why a parent volunteer at the third-grader's elementary school performed a pregnancy test on her.
The family stormed into the principal's office at Colbert Elementary School Friday after learning the test was performed without notifying them."She came home one day and said, `Mama, they made me pee in a cup,' " the child's mother told The Miami Herald. "I thought they were doing it to everyone, so I didn't pay her any mind. She has had a little potbelly since she was a baby.
"But that doesn't give them any right to give her a pregnancy test."
A school investigator began questioning teachers at the school and said he will present his findings to Broward County school administrators when he is finished.
"Apparently something has occurred. We have an accusation," said E. James Dardeen.
He said the woman accused of administering the test, Doreen Biggs, refused to give a statement and hired a lawyer.
A Colbert teacher told the Broward County Teachers Union that Biggs, president of Colbert's Parent-Teachers Association, suggested the test because she thought the child's stomach bulged abnormally.
The unidentified teacher said Biggs administered the test last month as at least two teachers watched or helped, said Diane Watts, a union official.
Ojetta Robinson, a school nurse supervisor, said even school nurses are not allowed to perform such tests without parental consent.
The girl said she never understood what happened that day.