GRAND RAPIDS, MI - The former Campus Elementary lunchroom aide who allegedly paid $1 to have a fourth-grader beaten up by classmates has entered a not guilty plea, according to Grand Rapids District Court records.

Brooke Wilson-Johnson, 19, was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday, Dec. 11, but opted to walk into court on Monday, Dec. 9, and make a plea and pay $200 bail for the Oct. 7 incident that got her fired.

She is scheduled to have a hearing before Magistrate Fred Hartley on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. She was arrested by Grand Rapids Police on Dec. 7 and released on the same day.

She is charged with two misdemeanors - aiding and abetting delinquency acts and aiding and abetting.

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Wilson-Johnson denied to police detectives that she paid $1 to three students to beat up a 9-year-old child in retaliation for him disobeying her in the cafeteria and calling her a "pregnant b----."

But the victim said he was pushed, bumped, thrown out of a seat, and had his food taken, according to Grand Rapids Schools public safety office records.

The students - two 9-year-old boys and a girl, age 10 - said they were each paid $1, according to police reports. However, a resource teacher, Renee Lance, only saw Wilson-Johnson give one student $1.

Wilson-Johnson began working at the school this year as a contracted employee through West Michigan Janitorial Service and had passed a background check. She has declined to comment on the case.



Monica Scott is the Grand Rapids K-12 education writer. Email her at mscott2@mlive.com and follow her on Twitter @MScottGR or Facebook