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Cheerleaders Accused Of Spiking Drink Squad Members Didn’t Think Girl Good Enough, Woman Says

The Seattle Times

Two high school cheerleaders have been removed from the squad for the remainder of the football season, accused of spiking the drink of a fellow cheerleader with a vomit-inducing syrup.

“They wanted to put her out of the game because they didn’t think she was a good enough cheerleader,” Ann Noble, mother of the head cheerleader at Bainbridge High School, told The Seattle Times. Noble said her daughter didn’t go along with the prank but was suspended for one game for reasons that are not clear.

The targeted cheerleader was not seriously hurt. She cheered through the game the night her drink was spiked and attended a cheerleaders’ car wash the next day.

None of the cheerleaders was identified by name.

Noble said two members of the eight-member squad slipped some of the ipecac syrup into the other cheerleader’s drink at a poster-painting party prior to the football team’s home opener Sept. 20.

“When I arrived at the game, I felt drugged and dizzy,” the cheerleader wrote in a statement for police, “but I felt it was from the Sudafed that my boyfriend had given me earlier for a head cold.”

Some days later, when the others were planning to try again, the head cheerleader exposed the plot.

An assault report was filed with police, but there is no indication police have taken action. Phone calls to police headquarters Tuesday were not returned.

Noble said the school board decided to suspend two cheerleaders from the squad for the rest of the football season, suspend the head cheerleader for one game and suspend a fourth cheerleader for an unknown duration. None was suspended from school.