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Jennifer Dennis studied her 13-year-old son’s skin and was uncertain which to be more astonished by: the shape made by the strange dots running the length of his forearm, or how they got there.

“When I looked at it, the shape was definitely a cross, like a Christian cross,” said Dennis. “Zach said his teacher did it with an instrument that gave off something like a lightning bolt. It was red, like a sunburn or if you burn your arm on the oven.”

The next morning, Dennis was standing in the reception of Mount Vernon middle school demanding to know what had been done to Zachary.

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