Ex-Teacher Sentenced for Filing False Report

A former Compton high school teacher who apparently soiled herself and then accused students of dumping human urine and feces on her was sentenced Thursday to a year of probation and a four-month suspended jail term for filing a false police report.

Shannan Michelle Barron, 29, also was sentenced to 90 days of electronic monitoring and 12 Saturdays working with a highway transportation crew and was ordered to pay $1,000 restitution.

“I am concerned about the fact that it was a crime that cast a big black cloud over the community and the school district,” Compton Municipal Judge Ellen Deshazer said.

Barron went on local television news programs and national television talk shows last year after claiming that four students threw two buckets of feces and urine on her outside her Dominguez High School classroom July 16, 1997.

A police investigation found no evidence of feces on Barron’s blouse, only some on her pants, said Compton Police Chief Hourie Taylor. He said it appeared that she had had “a personal accident.”

Barron denied that she made up the incident, saying she passed a polygraph test. She publicly criticized the district for a lack of security and accused school police of bungling the investigation.

Barron, who was convicted by a jury in June, could have faced six months in jail.

Taylor said police spent more than 200 hours investigating the case and could find no one to verify her story or to provide any additional evidence.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Garie Lynn Oehler said the boys accused in the case are “the real victims,” noting that they were taken out of Dominguez High for a time and forced to testify at various court hearings.