A second-grade teacher at a Virginia elementary school was arrested on Thursday after the school resource officer found her to be high on drugs in her classroom. The school resource officer at Spotswood Elementary School in Fredericksburg found that Candyce Leigh Carter, 35, appeared to be under the influence of drugs at school. Further investigation turned up suspected narcotics in her classroom, authorities said.
During the incident, Carter's husband was found in the school parking lot in a vehicle, also under the suspected influence of narcotics, and required medical attention, police said. According to police, a 2-year-old child was found in the vehicle with the husband, identified as 34-year-old Kristopher Donald Carter, also from Spotsylvania. He was arrested for felony child endangerment and felony child neglect or abuse, authorities said.