(NJ) — A first-grade Edison schoolteacher was arrested and charged with child endangerment after an alleged booze party at her home led to life-threatening levels of intoxication for a 15-year-old.
Tracey Harding, 50, of South Brunswick, was arrested after the Friday night bash, police said. The incident did not involve her students, according to police. Harding has two teenage children of her own, according to an online public profile.
South Brunswick police said they were called at about 11 p.m. that night by a different mother who wasn't able to get in touch with her son. The other woman's son, 15, was at a birthday party at Harding's Homestead Lane home. The woman, who was not identified, tried calling her son over and over again, and eventually someone else picked up his phone. That person said told the mom that her son was "sleeping," police said.
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