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clipped from www.nola.com

(AP) — Five fifth-graders were arrested Tuesday after an
investigation into allegations that students had sex in an
unsupervised classroom, Union Parish Sheriff Bob Buckley said.

The alleged incident took place March 27, at the Spearsville
school in rural north Louisiana.

The school, which Buckley described as a "quiet little
small-town school," has grades kindergarten through 12.

On the day the incident took place, an assembly for sixth-
through 12th-graders was called to discuss a stabbing death
in which a 15-year-old Spearsville student was accused. The
fifth-grade class of about 15 students normally would have
been supervised by a high school teacher during that time,
Buckley said. But the teacher was at the assembly, and the
class was inadvertently left unattended.

"After 44 years of doing this work, nothing shocks me
anymore," Buckley said. "But this comes pretty close."