Teacher Allegedly Paid Teens in Booze, Drugs to Clean House

The best part of this story for me is the "Was that wrong of me?" mug shot picture. It's almost as if she never really gave any thought to the fact that allegedly giving weed and booze to some teenagers in exchange for a cleaning her home would not only cost her her job, but put her in jail as well.

How did this happen?

A teacher at a Fox Lake high school recruited two teenage girls to do chores around her home — then paid the 14-year-olds for their work with marijuana, alcohol and prescription Zoloft, Lake County authorities said today. Kym Krocza, 41, faces felony charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for allegedly providing the teens with the drugs and alcohol between January and August, officials said.

Since her Tuesday arrest, Krocza has been suspended from her job as a calculus and algebra teacher at Grant Community High in Fox Lake — the school the two teens began attending last month. Krocza teaches both the girls, authorities said. But Krocza allegedly knew the teens before they started attending the school because they live near her home in unincorporated Ingleside, Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran said.

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