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Fired teacher can't bewitch court for cash
Posted on March 14, 2007 4:40 PM
Lauren Berrios learned a few things about the world when her case made it to court.
Nobody thought she was a witch, as in the Harry Potter type. Whether people thought she was another kind of witch is their opinion. I'm leaning toward 'probably everyone' as the size of that group as a guess.
She isn't going to get $2 million for denying she was a witch, or for anyone believing she was a witch and firing her for that.
Just because her ex-boss is a born again Christian doesn't necessarily mean he hates witches, which really doesn't matter because she's denied being one and no one ever thought she was a witch anyway.
She'll just have to keep her new job teaching in Atlanta. Hey parents! How would you like Lauren to teach your kids?...
Defense attorney Steven Stern told the jurors that Berrios had told co-workers about visiting a coven meeting, but was not fired for being a witch.I guess Atlanta's pretty hard up for teachers. Either that or their education jobs fair advertised opening for oppressed falsely accused witches who may be a hose or two short of a fire truck.
Instead, Stern said, she was a bizarre "storyteller" who fabricated tales that her husband was involved in a plane crash, and that her 2-year-old son lost his fingers in a VCR accident.
Fired, Lauren Berrios, Lawsuit, Denied