HYDE PARK, N.Y. (AP) – A school administrator accused of stabbing himself in a high school bathroom and blaming it on a student pleaded guilty Wednesday.
Clinton Knoll pleaded guilty in Hyde Park town court to one count of falsely reporting an incident, the Poughkeepsie Journal reported on its Web site Wednesday. Knoll was promised he wouldn’t serve any time behind bars in exchange for his plea, but could have served up to a year in jail.
Knoll was found in a boys’ bathroom at Franklin Roosevelt High School in November 2003, bleeding from a knife wound to the abdomen.
Police said Knoll led them to believe he had been attacked by a student but later modified his story, conceding he may have inflicted the wounds himself.
He resigned as an assistant principal following the incident.
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