Florida Substitute Teacher Accused Of Letting Middle Schooler Hit Her Vape Pen

A substitute teacher in Lake County, Florida, faces child abuse charges after allegedly letting a seventh grader hit her vape pen on school grounds.Jennifer Gaine Hale, 50, was arrested Friday for the incident. Two boys at Eustic Middle School were talking during the last period on Tuesday when one commented on wanting to try vaping, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by InsideLake.com.Hale, working as a substitute teacher that day, reportedly told the students she had a nicotine vape pen. It’s scary now,” Jennifer Hunter, the mother of an eighth grader at the school, told Daytona Beach NBC affiliate WESH. “I never thought that a substitute teacher would give my child that or someone else’s child any of that stuff. This should be common sense.”He added: “She has a responsibility to that classroom to protect kids. Just other students.”Eustis Police Chief Craig Capri told the station, “You can’t do this.