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SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) -- It sounds like an innocent enough mother-daughter activity -- baking cookies for a teacher. But authorities in Maine charge Julie Hunt of New Portland with helping to spike the cookies with Ex-Lax. Police say Hunt's daughter and two other teenage girls baked the cookies using an entire box of the laxative. The goodies were left on the teacher's desk with a note saying, "We made these cookies just for you, hope you enjoy them." Police say the prank sickened four seventh- and eighth-graders. The girls aren't facing criminal charges, but have
been suspended. Hunt has pleaded innocent to a charge of misdemeanor assault.