The incident involving the American teacher Robert Crosland went viral and left many a question mark in the eyes of users. Which allegations are true and what is pure speculation?

 

Note: The investigation into this case is still ongoing. The teacher is accused or allegations have been made against him, which are being investigated.

We received an increasing number of inquiries about an article alleging that a teacher first drowned a puppy in an aquarium in front of his students and then fed it to his snapping turtle.

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However, the story only becomes really confusing when you want to find out more information about the incident. The allegations range from “the puppy was still alive and wanted to swim away” to “it was a sick, deformed and barely viable puppy, the teacher did the right thing”.

What information should or can you trust?

A fact check

Looking at the case soberly, here's what happened, according to the East Idaho News :

PRESTON — A junior high school teacher is under investigation after he fed a puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the situation.

Robert Crosland has taught science at Preston Junior High School for years. In a news release, Preston School District 201 Superintendent Marc Gee says his administration became aware of “a regrettable circumstance involving some of the biological specimens” on March 7.

According to law enforcement familiar with the case, a high school teacher in Preston, Idaho, is under investigation after he fed a puppy to a snapping turtle in the presence of students. A Preston resident reported this.

The teacher is Robert Crosland, who has been teaching science at the school for years. In a press release , Principal Marc Gee of Preston School District 201 said that on March 7, “an unfortunate circumstance involving some of the biological specimens” became known. However, the turtle was fed after the actual school lesson.

Details of what exactly happened to the puppy, who it was and how many students it was, have not been released at this time as police are still investigating the case.

So much for the hard facts.

speculations

And now it gets complicated - because there are thousands of other voices on the Internet, all of which have their own opinions, but none of which can be officially confirmed. It is clear that Crosland has many supporters. There is currently a petition to prove that Crosland is not a bad person.

You can also read the following on Facebook:

We watch Fox 13 every night.
Last night we were shocked to see what was presented on the news it was so biased. We wish that the facts had been researched before the news reported the article on Mr. Robert Crosland our Jr. High Science teacher. He taught seven of our eight children and they all loved him dearly and learned so much form him. I believe in free speech and free press but check the facts out first and check the source also. Thank you Kathy Jepsen

Kathy Jepsen cautions that you shouldn't believe everything you hear in the media and she believes Crosland is a good teacher.

According to Heavy Jacee Hammons wrote a Facebook post describing the "actual events":

I have a little bit to say about the puppy being fed to the snapping turtle. First of all, there were only three students in the classroom and two of them were in high school. Only one of them was a junior high student. And out of those three students, two of them were my brothers. None of the kids need counseling, and Crosland didn't feed the turtle in front of a whole class. Nor did they have a student who was frantically running to the principal trying to adopt the puppy.

It was also 45 minutes after school had been officially dismissed for the day. My brothers are doing fine and are honestly feeling terrible about how this has been affecting Crosland. My brothers also feel that Crosland did the right thing in seeing the puppy's state of life. Before Crosland fed the puppy to the turtle, the puppy drowned in the water. He explained to the three students that were in the class that drowning is one of the most humane ways for something to pass away.

You take a breath, and then you pass out after inhaling water and you don't feel the actual pain of dying. If he had just let the puppy die because it was starving it would have been more painful for the dying pup, and it would have taken a lot longer for the puppy to die.

Honestly, people wouldn't be as aggravated as they are if it was a rat or some other unattractive creature. People think that his puppy was healthy and happy, but it was dying and starving. I feel Crosland did the right thing with the puppy, and he has my full support.

There are said to have been only three students in the room. Two of them are already in high school and one is in junior high. She also writes that Crosland did the right thing because the puppy was in poor physical condition and he drowned the puppy before feeding it. This is “the most humane way to sleep”. She also mentions that if it had been a rat or some other “unattractive creature,” people wouldn’t have been so outraged.

What do the police say?

Heavy also contacted the Franklin County Sheriff's Department, which issued the following press release:

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Source: Heavy

It states that the Franklin County Sheriff's Office and the Preston Police Department are cooperating with the District Court District Attorney's Office in the said animal cruelty case. They also ask the public to be patient until the case is fully investigated.

Result:

The Robert Crosland case is currently experiencing a “viral internet presence”.

Yes, a puppy was fed to a snapping turtle in the presence of Crosland and students, but any details about what happened have not yet been publicly confirmed by police.

It is not advisable to rely on hasty opinion formation and supposedly internal information and thus spread the incident widely on the Internet. The case is under police investigation and it has not yet been officially confirmed whether the puppy was sick or healthy, drowned or fed alive, and how many students were present.


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