Teen-ager says manure 'discipline' stories were exaggerated

Wednesday, May 22, 2002

WAYNESVILLE, Mo. -- A former church school student who was ordered to wade into a manure pit as punishment minimized the event Tuesday and acknowledged exaggerating to a sheriff about how often it happened.

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