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Halloween Costume Gets Osceola H.S. Student Suspended
POSTED: 10:15 a.m. EST November 3,
2003
UPDATED: 10:56 a.m. EST
November 3, 2003
KISSIMMEE, Fla. - Osceola
High School administrators thought a student's Halloween costume was
more trick than treat. So they suspended her.
Lanessa Riobe, 16, was told to go home Friday after wearing a
T-shirt decorated with condoms. Lanessa said she decided on the
costume after seeing safe-sex commercials on television.
"A lot of my friends are sexually active," Riobe told
the Orlando Sentinel. "I tell them, if you're going to do it, be
safe."
Riobe taped condoms to a white T-shirt and began passing them
out to her classmates. Her first-period teacher alerted school
administrators, who sent her home with a three-day suspension for
class disruption. They also said she had an insolent attitude.
Osceola High principal Chuck Paradiso later reduced the
suspension to one day.
"This is not acceptable," he said. "This is something you
don't do in a public school."
Ribose's mother, Melissa, supported her daughter's decision,
and even helped her get the condoms for the costume.
"Sex can be deadly and people need to know that," Melissa
Riobe said. "I just can't believe they suspended her for doing
something good."
Copyright 2003 by The Associated
Press
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