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Sunday Morning News

School Bus Driver Bought Child's Urine to Pass Drug Test

Aired January 7, 2001 - 9:04 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

KYRA PHILLIPS, ANCHOR: Hindsight is 20/20. Both honest and dishonest people find that out sooner or later. In New York, two school bus drivers have been charged with endangering a child's welfare so they could pass drug tests.

Judy Sanders of CNN affiliate WRGD reports the story came out when the boy told his parents.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JUDY SANDERS, WRGD-TV REPORTER (voice-over): School bus driver Kimberly Holsapple is running from more than her crime. She's running from shame that she paid a 5-year-old boy $5 for his urine so she could pass a drug test.

KIMBERLY HOLSAPPLE, SCHOOL BUS DRIVER: You know, it was a really bad plan. We messed up. We involved a child. We did something horrible. And I have to live with that. And, you know, it's pretty bad.

SANDERS: Holsapple, who drives for Stock Transpiration, said she needed the boy's urine to cover marijuana in her system. It was allegedly her fellow driver, Tanya Humbert (ph), who knew the boy, who had him urinate in a cup in a bathroom at School 27 in Albany last Tuesday.

The plan was caught on tape because Stock Transportation has an audio and video taping system on all its buses.

(on camera): Police say they caught the two drivers on tape talking about how they were going to keep the urine warm. Holsapple told me later she did it by putting the urine in a coffee can with boiling water that she'd hid on the bus.

(voice-over): Holsapple told me she suffers from bipolar disorder and that she's a drug addict who's been in and out of treatment programs all her life. But she says she was not asked about her drug or mental history on the federally required form she filled out when she began her first stint as a driver 18 months ago.

Stock Transportation says it will now review its hiring and drug testing procedures with Safe Systems of Albany.

KAREN PAQUETTE, STOCK TRANSPORTATION: If we can't get better batching out of this incident from the current supplier, you know, we will not stay there.

JOE VERRIGNI, ALBANY CITY SCHOOLS: This sends a message to the drivers that are out there that, you know, you're not going to get away with it.

SANDERS: But Holsapple claims she knows other drivers who are getting away with it, and she warns it's not worth it.

HOLSAPPLE: I had to have it, and that's addiction, and that's what I'm fighting. And I feel really bad, and I want to make a public apology.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: And that report came from Judy Sanders of our CNN affiliate WRGD in Albany, New York.

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