Jan. 31, 2025

Emergency Podcast | Florida Principal Holds House Party for 100 Teens

Emergency Podcast | Florida Principal Holds House Party for 100 Teens

This “Emergency Episode” examines a scandal involving Brevard County, Florida educators and a chaotic house party that featured underage drinking and a firearm where the principal of a local elementary school and a 3rd grade teacher have been arrested...

This “Emergency Episode” examines a scandal involving Brevard County, Florida educators and a chaotic house party that featured underage drinking and a firearm where the principal of a local elementary school and a 3rd grade teacher have been arrested on multiple charges. An Exposed: Scandalous Files of the Elite “Bad Teachers” series episode

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Timestamps
01:33 Brevard County Scandal
01:58 Meet the Bad Teachers
04:56 The Incident Report
08:37 A Disturbing Party
11:40 Carly Anderson's Role
15:34 The Aftermath
24:37 Legal Consequences Ahead
27:03 Community Reactions
29:07 What’s the Deal With Parenting?
29:47 Closing Thoughts

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of

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the Elite. I am your host, Jim Chapman, and we

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are back with an emergency podcast of Bad Teachers, making

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testimony of Buster Murdall and feature the Murdall series before

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out at patreon dot com slash Exposed Podcast Files. So

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what sparked today's emergency drop, Well, all of you quite Frankly.

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Ever since this story broke just really a week and

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a half, two weeks ago, I have been getting messages

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through Facebook saying cover this story. Now. Initially I was

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gonna hold off until more information came out, but y'all

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want to hear me talk about this one, and my

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listeners get what they want. So today I'm bringing you

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to Brevard County, Florida, and I'm going to tell you

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about two bad teachers, one of them being an elementary

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school principal, the other one being a third grade teacher

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at that same school. And the first one we're going

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to discuss is Miss Elizabeth Hill Broddigan, now Miss Brodigan,

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who is forty seven, very well respected principal, and even

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back in her teaching days, was someone that excelled at

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what she did. She had been a teacher for over

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two decades, honored many times with various awards, including receiving

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Teacher of the Year for Brevard County, which is no

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small feat by itself. Brevard County is very large, huge

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school district, one hundred and eleven schools in over seventy

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four thousand students. You were talking about over five thousand

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teachers in this district. So think how much she must

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have stood out out to be selected as the best

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teacher in that district. It's pretty amazing, quite honestly. The

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other bad teacher involved in this mess is Carle Anderson

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forty five, who teaches third grade at the school where

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Broddigan is the principal, and that school, incidentally is Roosevelt

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Elementary School in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Now, she's also a

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very experienced teacher. She's been teaching since two thousand and six,

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almost twenty years, with nine of those years being in

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the Cocoa Beach area, where she taught kindergarten for five years,

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first grade for two years, and third grade for two years. Now,

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I did manage to get my hands on the actual

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arrest warrant, So let's get into the evening of January nineteenth,

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of twenty twenty five in what went down that it

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seems like everybody is talking about. So according to the warrant,

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and y'all, I have reviewed countless warrants, and in the

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incident report there is you know, your standard stuff, height,

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weight age, et cetera. And on miss Bronigan's incident report,

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it caught my eye that her height is listed as

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five six and where you put the weight, it says, verbatim,

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not known and unlikely will ever be known. That's exactly

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what it says. Now, I guess they asked her and

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that was our response. But that was a new one

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for me. Never seen that. So I'm gonna read directly

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from the probable cause statement and then we're gonna discuss it.

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although the principle is the principle of an elementary school,

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these were not elementary school kids. These were all high

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school age kids. I'm not saying that's much better, but

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if you just go by the headlines, it totally leads

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you to believe that these were like ten and eleven

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year old fifth graders. Also, this was not a party

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she specifically through. It was a party her sons, her

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two sons through, involving mostly fifteen to eighteen year olds.

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Again a lot of problems here, but I needed to

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provide some clarification because the incident reports, in my opinion,

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are not very well written, especially the first one I'm

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going to cover. There's two written by two separate officers.

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by Corporal Brown and it says on January nineteenth of

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twenty twenty five, at approximately eight forty five pm, I

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and additional officers responded to and it gives the address

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in Cocoa Beach, Florida, regarding numerous complaints of noise, alcohol,

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and narcotics abuse. Upon officer's arrival, multiple individuals approximately one

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hundred were observed at the residence owned by the suspect,

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Elizabeth Hill Burdigan, participating in an open house party. I

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spoke with the defendant, who I know, the landline and

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informder of the complaints received. She said she would respond

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to the location to handle the issue. As she was

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down the street. She inquired about the noise ordinance and

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explained she would have the music stopped by ten pm.

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Additional officers and I responded again at nine to twenty

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four pm. Now let's stop right there for a second.

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They get called out at eight forty five pm for noise, alcohol,

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and narcotics use. Yet they speak to her and they

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apparently left. Noah, ras didn't stop the party nothing. That's

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how I'm reading it in the warrant. I wasn't there.

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exactly what he wrote. Then he said additional officers, and

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I responded again at nine to twenty four pm, So

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you're talking about forty five minutes later. After receiving another

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report regarding a house party, noise and alcohol consumption. Before

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I responded, I conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle

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where the driver advised he was leaving the house party

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and was scared because the juvenile of the party was

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showing off a firearm. However, no juveniles were located with weapons.

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The same juvenile also confirmed the house, pointing out the

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suspect in her specific job title at the elementary school,

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Officer Mock spoke with the suspect as she approached the vehicle.

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She advised she would shut down the party. Later. I

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offered to speak with the juveniles who were in the

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suspect's backyard, but she declined to allow me to do that.

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At this point, the suspect knew about the event as

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she was home and declined law enforcement assistance to end

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the event. Now I got a little problem with that.

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You've got reports of a juvenile with a gun, and

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basically the homewner says, well, you can't go in my backyard,

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and you don't go back there, and you use that

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as an excuse, sounds to me like you've got probable cause.

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Then there's a big time gap in his report. It

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goes from nine to twenty four pm to eleven forty

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one PM, and it says at eleven forty one pm,

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I located a juvenile in the grass in the front

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of the residence, intoxicated and vomiting. I contacted the fire

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department to evaluate the juvenile. The juvenile was later turned

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over to his mother after I contacted her. At eleven

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eighteen PM, the suspect is seen walking out of the

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house toward the driveway, standing in front of a vehicle

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and looking in my direction. She did not inquire as

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to why I was there or what was happening. At

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eleven nineteen she walks back inside the residence. While I

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was with the juvenile, another officer conducted a traffic stop

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on a vehicle operated by another juvenile with other juveniles

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in the car, where an arrest was made for Dui.

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The juveniles were coming from the party at the resident.

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The suspect had control of the residents and allowed an

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open party to take place where alcoholic beverages were consumed

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by miners at the residence and failed to take reasonable

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steps to prevent the possession or consumption of the alcoholic beverage. Now, fortunately,

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the incident report I'm going to cover now from the

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second officer provides much more clarification, So I'm going to

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read that for you. This incident report was written by

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ROSA Officer Rosa Emilio, and it says the defendant identified

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as Carle Anderson's. Now we're getting into Carly Anderson of

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Cooco b which did commit the offense of child neglect

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when she failed to provide a child with the care, supervision,

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or services necessary to maintain the child's physical and mental health,

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and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Officers responded

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to the house on Coco Beach, Florida, in reference to

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an open house party. Upon arrival, officers observed multiple vehicles

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parked in the front of the residence, stretching down the

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roadway and into the middle of the road. Officers made

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contact with juveniles at the residents who claimed they didn't

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know whose party it was. Right, Corporal Brown knew who

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the homeowner was and called her Elizabeth Hill Burdigan. Corporal

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Brown told Elizabeth there was an open house party at

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a residence involving juveniles drinking alcohol and using marijuana. Elizabeth

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told Officer Brown that she was down the street and

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would take care of it. Officers then clear the scene

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and began to conduct traffic stops on vehicles leaving the area.

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During the traffic stops, multiple juveniles were located inside the vehicles,

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and they were seen wearing the same clothing from the

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quote White live party that was held. Officers were eventually

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called back to the same residents by neighbors who were

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again complaining of the open house party. This was at

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nine twenty four. The complaints also mentioned that juveniles were

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seen walking toward the resident through other people's yard and

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were yelling obscenities at them. When officers arrived on the scene,

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there was still an active house party happening at the residence.

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Elizabeth Hill Brudigan approached one of the officers as a

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drove by and told him that she was shutting down

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the party. The police department also received a third call

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complaining about the house party while officers were on the scene.

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The police department then received a call from what sounded

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like a juvenile. This was at ten twenty five pm.

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The unknown juvenile mail advisor were people shooting guns at

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a nearby skate park and then drove to Sydney Fisher Park.

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The juvenile then advised the people at the park were

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conducting satanic activity and had someone at gunpoint. Officers responded

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to the park and guess what, you could see this coming,

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couldn't you. The call was unfounded, so some juvenile called

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the cops said there's people in the park holding people

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at gunpoint and they're conducting satanic rituals. All the fucking

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cops leave the residents to go check on that call.

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Of course, I mean, certainly you have to do that,

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but I could see that one coming a mile away personally,

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so that kind of answered why they left. Officers then

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returned to the area of the house party and most

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of the partygoers had left. I bet they did. That

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was the whole point of the call. Another argent observed

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a vehicle run the stop sign at the south end

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of the road and amos strike his police car. This

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was at eleven thirty one pm. The sergeant conducted a

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traffic stop on this vehicle and discovered two intoxicated female

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juveniles in the vehicle. The juvenile that was driving was

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arrested for d WI and the passenger was cited for

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being in possession of marijuana. The juvenile that was arrested

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provided a blood alcohol level of point one one. Both

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juveniles were dressed in white lye attire, which was the

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attire of the night Right. While the sergeant was on

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this traffic stop, Corporal Brown found a male juvenile vomiting

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and shaking in Elizabeth Hill Berdigan's front yard. This was

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at eleven forty one pm. Corporal Brown determined that the

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juvenile require medical attention and had Brevard County Fire Rescue respond.

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Once fire rescue arrived on the scene, Elizabeth Hill Birdigan

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walked out of her residence and stood at the top

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of her driveway. Elizabeth Hill Birdigan then walked inside and

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turned off all the lights in the front of her house.

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How about that shit, So the fire department shows up

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to work on this kid who is obviously so drunk

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he's peeking in the front yard, and she goes and

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turns her freaking lights off, her outside lights. Fire rescue

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began evaluating the juvenile. Corporal Brown called the juvenile's mother,

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who advised she was coming to the police department to

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pick up her son. The juvenile was determined to be

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intoxicated and was placed in the back seat of Corporal

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Brown's marked patrol vehicle. As the defendant, who is known

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to be a third grade teacher at Roosevelt Elementary, began

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to walk up and berate the fire department, Corporate Brown

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approached the defendant as she was yelling at the fire

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department and y'all they're talking about Carly Anderson right here.

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The defendant advised she was upset because a child was

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being put quote in a machine unquote and stated that

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she was a teacher. The defendant told Corporate Brown that

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she was hanging out at the party while pointing at

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Elizabeth Hill Berdigan's house. Corporate Brown told the defendant that

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there were two hundred kids at this resident drinking. The

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defendant interrupted Corporate Brown and yelled that she knew that already.

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The defendant speech was slowed and slurred. She also had

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mood swings between angry and calm multiple times during this

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brief interaction. Corporate Brown then stated in his body camera

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footage that he could smell the odor of alcoholic beverage

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emanating from the defendant's person, and she acknowledged that she

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had been drinking. Eventually, Corporate Brown told the defendant to

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go away. That way he could bring the juvenile back

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to his mother on January twentieth, So the next day,

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I spoke with the defendant on the phone without any

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questioning the defendant she had no participation in what took

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place at the house party. The defendant advised she had

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a friend and told me that I knew who that

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friend was, and then in quotation marks it says referring

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to Elizabeth Hill Bertigan, and that that friend invited her

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out for a drink. The defendant advised her friend was

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sober the whole time because she only had one drink.

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The defendant then advised her friend's kid did what he did. Quote.

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The defendant then advised Corporate Brown that he knows who

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she is because she teaches at Roosevelt. The defendant then

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advised that her children were not at the party and

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she does not participate in underage drinking. I asked the

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defendant if she would be willing to meet with me

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and provide a soorn statement. The defendant said, hell no,

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quote unquote, and advised that she wanted no part of this.

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The defendant then told me that our phone call better

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not be required howarded. The defendant was then advised that

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everything I do is recorded. The defendant then stated that

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it was okay because she did not say any names.

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Later that day, I also spoke with Elizabeth Hill Brodigan

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on the phone. I asked Elizabeth if she would be

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willing to provide a sworn statement regarding the incident. Elizabeth

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advised she would meet me at three point thirty that day.

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At three point thirty eight, I called Elizabeth back because

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she had not yet come to the police department. Elizabeth

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advised she was not willing to speak with me anymore.

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On January twenty first, two days later, Detective Olsen and

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I began interviewing multiple students from different schools who attended

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the party. The students we interviewed were identified via multiple

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body camera videos from traffic stops and encounters of the party.

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All of the students who agreed to speak with us

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advised that they were over a hundred students at Elizabeth

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Hill Brdigan's house for this party. Most students knew that

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Elizabeth was the principle of Roosevelt Elementary and advised that

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parties like this happened at least once or twice a month.

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Students also advised they arrived as early as six forty

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five PM and Elizabeth was having students help make preparations

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for the party. At that time. Alcohol was ready and

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available in multiple red and white coolers inside the residents.

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Students also advised that Elizabeth made no attempt to start

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the party at any point and advised that she seemed

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okay with what was happening. Students advised that there was

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marijuana being used at the party as well. One white

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male juvenile with a mask on was seen taking videos

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with a firearm at the party and pointing it at

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the person recording the video. The firearm was described by

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one student as a bretta. The party was advertised via

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schat and was hosted by Elizabeth's two sons. The students

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also advised there were fights at the party. One fight

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was described as follows a student punched another student who

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was autistic. A cooco beach wrestler then slapped the student

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that had punched the autistic student. This altercation was recorded,

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but none of the students interview could provide that video.

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I interviewed the wrestler who admitted that he slapped another

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student in the street at the party. The student that

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was hit was converned to not be autistic, but does

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have a learning disability. Some students advised that Elizabeth Birdigan

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was in the residence during the party and had told

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her son to stop the party. Elizabeth's son ignored her,

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and Elizabeth took no further action to stop the party.

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Also attempted to contact Elizabeth's husband and I want his name.

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Mister Burdigan, who is also the homeowner. Elizabeth answered the

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phone and advised he was unable to speak with me.

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Mister Burdigan called me back and advised later that he

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did not wish to speak with me. On January twenty

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fourth of twenty twenty five, the defendant was seen driving

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her vehicle out of a parking lot of Roosevelt Elementary School.

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A traffic stop was conducted on her vehicle as she

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pulled into her residence. The defendant was instructed to exit

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her vehicle and she was placed under arrest. The defendant

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was then transported to the Cocoa Beach Police Department for

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post Miranda interview, the defendant refused to speak with me

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and was transported to the Brevard County Jail. So that

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was that report, which was much clearer than the first.

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And as you can tell, this is all just a

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freaking disturbing mess. You got teens fighting other teens, children

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smoking weed, playing with a gun, one left the party

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and was arrested for DUI and another child passes out

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on the grass. And how about Berdigan's Husband's response. You

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can tell he wants nothing to do with this shit,

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and as far as I can tell, was not even there,

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no mention of him in the report as being there.

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He may not have even known about it until all

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of this went down. So I did some more digging in.

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And the Burdigans, they're a wealthy family, nearly a million

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dollar home according to online values, and the husband works

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a pretty good job. But how about the lack of

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control over her own kids in her house? Quoting that report,

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witnesses said she went inside and told him to stop

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the party, and he totally ignored her, and she took

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no further action. I mean, what the hell are you

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kidding me? So it's interesting and even shocking to me

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that neither Brdigan nor Anderson were arrested that night. They

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weren't arrested till five days later. It was not until

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January twenty fourth they were arrested, but when they were

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police issued this news release. It reads two arrests made

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in an underage house party. On January nineteenth, twenty twenty five,

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the Cocoa Beach Police Department responded to a residence in

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reference to a house party. Upon arrival, officers observed over

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one hundred juveniles at the residence in matching T shirts,

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many of who were consuming alcohol that was later learned

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to be available in coolers of the residence. The homeowner

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was identified as Roosevelt Elementary School principal Elizabeth Hill Birdigan.

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While officers were investigating the party, a juven jun was

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located on the front lawn experiencing an alcohol related medical event.

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The juvenile was so heavily intoxicated that the fire rescue

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had to respond to treat him. During this time, the

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homeowner Hill Brdigan, was seen by officers in the driveway

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of her residence, turning off the outside lights and entering

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her residence, causing fire Rescue to use auxiliary lighting on

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their vehicle to treat the juvenile. Additionally, a traffic stop

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was conducted near the residents, resulting in the arrest of

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a juvenile driver for DUI. Additionally, an intoxicated female identified

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as Carly Anderson approached officers on the scene, identifying herself

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as a teacher that had been at the party. It

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was later discovered she was in fact a teacher at

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Roosevelt Elementary School. In the days that followed Koco Beach

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Police detectives interviewed numerous juveniles and parents. An arrest warrant

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was obtained for Elizabeth Hill Burttighan for child neglect, contributing

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to the delinquency of a minor, and holding an open

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house party. Carly Anderson was additionally arrested in charge with

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child neglect and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

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And then it says if you have any questions, call them.

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So both ladies are arrested, they both bond out, and

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they are awaiting their court dates. Now, in these cases,

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most of the charges are misdemeanors. However, there is one

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felony each for them, and that is for the child

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neglect charge. But don't be surprised, as a matter of fact,

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I must guarantee this. Their attorneys are going to likely

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work out a deal where that charge is brought down

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to a misdemeanor. So at the end of the day,

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after all of this, I don't have a crystal ball,

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but looking at as many of these types of cases

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as I've looked at over the years, likely finds in

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community service is what these ladies are going to get

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at the end of the day. But we'll move on

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as soon as all this comes out. The school, of course,

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they do what you think they do. They place them

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on administrative leave, saying we are extremely troubled by these

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accusations and are fully cooperating with the Cocoa Beach Police Department.

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Our commitment to student safety remains our top priority. But

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some really strange comments came out from the school board

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chairman when he spoke to Fox thirty five News about this.

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And I want you to hear this clip.

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This isn't anything new. I mean, when we have thousands

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of employees, things happen. I've read the police report and

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it seems that it was a teenage party. You cannot

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first off, you cannot be a parents and not have

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seen a or heard of a teenage party. We've seen parties,

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and I've read articles where it has led to students' deaths,

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you know, and car crashes as they left parties as

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far as I know as of now, and I'm not

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going to talk about details that didn't happen here.

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Now, after that forty five seconds of sheer stupidity that

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came out of that guy's mouth, in my opinion, he

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should be removed from the school board immediately. I mean,

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he's actually trying to conflate two completely different things. It's

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one thing for a team to have had a house

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party while his parents are out of town. Hell, it's

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one thing for a team to have a house party

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and maybe his parents were there. But in this case,

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it's completely different. When the team has a house party

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and you're the employee, you're the principal, no less, not

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only allowing it to happen, but also the alcohol and

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helps them set the damn party up. And then this

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guy says, well, no one was killed here, and to that,

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I say, by the grace of God, no one was killed.

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There's no telling how many of those teens got behind

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the wheel drunk that night. We know of at least

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one now it came across a comment that was made

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on a post while researching this case, and I found

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it interesting because it was from Brrdigan's neighbor and it

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was clarifying some things that were made in the comments

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of this post. So just bear with me. I'm going

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to read you the exact quote word for word. This

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is the principle of my child's school. She also happens

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to be our neighbor. She has two teenage sons who

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have been hosting wild parties almost every weekend for the

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past few months. The gatherings involve kids ages thirteen to eighteen.

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There are not any elementary school children attending the party,

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and she put nine in all caps, and she continues on. Initially,

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she would usually shut the parties down by eleven pm. However,

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over the last few weekends, the loud music has continued

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well into the early morning hours. Although the police had

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been called to her house before, this was the first

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time alcohol was so blatantly evolved. On the night in question,

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the principle wasn't at her home the entire time. She

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was down the street at another neighbor's house. The police

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called her instructed her to shut down the house party,

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but she did not comply. When officers arrived, they discovered alcohol, marijuana,

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and even a firearm being used by the teenagers. I

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actually spoke with her the morning of her arrest. She

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seemed completely normal, almost as if she had no idea

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what was about to happen later on that day. Needless

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to say, our entire neighborhood is still in shock over

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the situation and cannot comprehend one on earth she was thinking.

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And my answer to that is she wasn't thinking. When

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you wonder why these teenagers just don't seem to get

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it these days, it's because they have parents who have

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zeno control over them, or they want to be the

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cool parents. And this time it's gonna cost those parents something.

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It won't be as major as everyone's thinking, but they're

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gonna have to pay some money for this, And they're

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gonna have to do some community service, etc. And look,

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it may cost them their careers in the end. So

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there you have it. Currently, there's nothing else to report

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on this case, but I'll keep you posted. If you

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