2 middle school girls found guilty in rat poison plot

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – A Lake County Circuit judge found two middle school girls guilty of trying to kill two classmates by putting rat poison in their milk cartons.

Judge Lan Simpson held a two-day juvenile trial and decided that the girls, age 12 and 13, were guilty of plotting and executing a plan to kill two classmates they disliked. The girls are to be sentenced May 12.

Authorities say the girls put d-Con rat poison in the milk cartons of two other girls during the lunch hour at Daly Middle School last year.

When the two victims finished their drinks, they saw the pellets at the bottom, Lake County District Attorney David Schutt said. The girls did not feel well and were taken to the hospital.

The crime was identified when one of the girls who had placed the poison thought she too might have gotten some in her milk. She went to the hospital and there talked to law enforcement officials.

The green, crystalline pellets of d-Con hadn't worked their way into the milk before the victims consumed it, authorities say, and no one was injured.