Two boys were dying in the street. Those who have met Jennifer Porter can't imagine her fleeing.
TAMPA - When the news finally hit Muller Elementary, it was so unsettling and perplexing some of the children cried and others simply put their heads down on their desks. Their 28-year-old dance teacher had been involved in the hit-and-run that killed two boys just down the block from the school.
What kind of person would drive away, leaving children dying in the street?
Pretty, soft-spoken Jennifer Porter?
Porter's students couldn't understand "why someone who is so good" could be that person, said Dr. Tracy Schatzberg, a crisis counselor who visited the school. "They want to know why, and we can't really explain why."
But how to explain to 10-year-olds something that makes little sense even to adults, particularly to those who know Jennifer Porter?
Across the country, people acquainted with Porter in various stages of her life are struggling - with no success - to square their memories of her with her decision to flee the crash scene.
http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/2004/04/18/Tampabay/How_could_the_woman_t.shtml
TAMPA - When the news finally hit Muller Elementary, it was so unsettling and perplexing some of the children cried and others simply put their heads down on their desks. Their 28-year-old dance teacher had been involved in the hit-and-run that killed two boys just down the block from the school.
What kind of person would drive away, leaving children dying in the street?
Pretty, soft-spoken Jennifer Porter?
Porter's students couldn't understand "why someone who is so good" could be that person, said Dr. Tracy Schatzberg, a crisis counselor who visited the school. "They want to know why, and we can't really explain why."
But how to explain to 10-year-olds something that makes little sense even to adults, particularly to those who know Jennifer Porter?
Across the country, people acquainted with Porter in various stages of her life are struggling - with no success - to square their memories of her with her decision to flee the crash scene.
http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/2004/04/18/Tampabay/How_could_the_woman_t.shtml