After an investigation revealed that the principal of Palm Elementary School, Debra Pustulka, and Monika Sommers Fridenstine, were forcing a nine-year old student to eat garbage from a trash can, the Lorraine school board fired them both. The girl’s family filed a lawsuit against Pustulka, claiming that she told her to finish whatever was left on her tray. The girl refused to eat the food and instead threw it away. Sommers-Fridenstine took the food back and made the girl eat it while other students watched.