FULLERTON : No Proof of Animal Abuse at School Found

Concluding a monthlong investigation into allegations that animals were mutilated at Sunny Hills High School, officials said Thursday that they found no evidence of such incidents during the current school year.

Also, officials of the Fullerton Joint Union High School District said investigators could not prove or disprove that there were any incidents last year.

“We are of the opinion that any abuse, if it did occur, was isolated, limited, non-recurring and in the past,” investigators Frank Parsons and Larry Shaw wrote in their report, said Ron Anderson, assistant to the superintendent.

A group of parents had alleged that at least three students in the school’s agriculture program saw animals being mutilated and that students played baseball with dead chickens, tortured pigeons and disemboweled squirrels.

Parsons, a retired assistant agriculture commissioner, and Shaw, a vector control ecologist, interviewed a number of parents, agriculture students, a teacher and administrators during their probe, Anderson said, who added that the report was not made public because it includes names of students.