A North Fulton County kindergarten aide who was fired for allegedly bringing a drug pipe to school admitted to police that she was a user of crystal meth, Channel 2 Action News reported Friday.
Shirley Robinson was terminated for misconduct in December from her paraprofessional job at Mountain Park Elementary School in Roswell.
The Fulton County Schools Police Department investigated the incident and decided not to seek charges against Robinson because there was insufficient residue in the pipe for testing purposes, according to a police report and other documents provided to Channel 2 under an open records request to Fulton County school officials.
In the report, police also said they would not charge the woman with possession of drug-related objects because they had not actually seized the pipe from her “and because of the minor nature of the offense.”
Efforts by Channel 2 to contact Robinson were unsuccessful.
The afternoon of Dec. 19, a cleaning crew found a black eyeglasses case with “a glass pipe containing a small amount of possible drug resident, a straightened paper clip, a pair of tweezers, a long sharp item and 1 white paper towel,” police said.
The cleaning crew turned their discovery in to their supervisor.
That evening, Robinson and another woman came to school looking for the glasses case, police said. A witness told investigators that Robinson “appeared to be extremely nervous and frantic” as she went from room to room searching for the case.
Police said they were called to the school the following day and met with an “extremely nervous” Robinson. Investigators said they spoke with her again on Dec. 21, and at that point she admitted the glass pipe was hers.
The woman stated “that the glass pipe was used to smoke a drug called ‘Ice,’ also known as crystal methamphetamine,” police said. “Robinson stated that she never used the drug at or near school.”
According to another investigative document, Robinson told interviewers that “her job was therapy and [she] needed an escape from her troubled life. She used the drug to mask the problems she felt she couldn’t handle. Robinson said she wanted and needed help and felt a big weight was lifted off her for opening up about her addiction.”
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