One of the chickens was killed by a wild predator and they suspected raccoons or a opossum was responsible.

As one of the students recorded cell phone video, Brewton and the students plunged them into the water and sprayed them with a hose to kill them.

"What causes us great concern is that these actions supposedly took place in front of students, so that's why we're looking into it, that's why we're absolutely taking it seriously", said Kevin Christian with Marion County Public Schools. The Ocala Star Banner reports that Dewie Brewton, the school's agriculture teacher, allegedly trapped the raccoons in metal cages, then lowered the cages into water-filled trashcans. "It made me sick to my stomach", the mother of a student who took surreptitious pictures of the event told CBS News.

In the interview with the WKMG, the mother said the incident made her "sick to my stomach". "It's awful. It still does make me sick to my stomach". "It's bad. It still does make me sick to my stomach", said the student's mother, who wanted to remain anonymous. Her son told her the creatures were trapped in cages as they were being drowned.

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'Why is he not fighting?' one person asks in the clip as the raccoon sits in the garbage bin filled with water.

The school board made a public statement letting the district know that, although the authorities indicate the teacher may not have broken the laws, "his actions before students are certainly questionable".

The mother of a Forest High School student who spoke with WKMG claimed an opossum was also killed Monday "just for sport". Those findings will be presented to officials with the state attorney's office, who will decide if criminal charges are appropriate.

"We would like to say that we are 100% behind our advisor and everything he does for our children/students". "This is a man who would give everything he had to make sure that his children/students are taken care of".

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Some of Brewton's former students, meanwhile, have defended him as a teacher who has "gone above and beyond his call of duty" to help them. "He has spent late nights, weekends and has provided around the clock support for his club and for his school", the statement read.

The raccoons reportedly created a nuisance and killed several chickens that were being raised by the students and staff in a shed behind the school premises.

'I don't think that's the way to treat any animal, ' she said.

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