Elementary school principal Maria Pantalone has been charged with three counts of threatening death and bodily harm, according to court documents.

Pantalone, who appeared at Old City Hall court on Sunday, is now on personal leave from her position as principal at Ossington/Old Orchard Junior Public School.

Grant Bowers, lawyer for the Toronto District School Board, said the board received information Sunday and, based on that, she was placed on paid leave.

Board representatives are to meet with her lawyer this afternoon.

Pantalone was reassigned to Ossington/Old Orchard after pleading guilty in 2007 to throwing feces at a boy who was not a student at the school.

A letter sent yesterday to parents of students at the school said only that the principal "will be away on leave for personal reasons."

She could not be reached for comment yesterday and her lawyer, Mike Caroline, had no comment.

While Pantalone pleaded guilty in the feces-flinging incident, she was given an absolute discharge and does not have a criminal record.

Pantalone said at the time she made the plea out of "total, total frustration."

No other details of the case can be made public.

Pantalone had been principal at Keele Street Junior Public School and Mountview Alternative, but after the court case the board transferred her.

Both the Toronto District School Board and the Ontario College of Teachers decided against disciplining Pantalone.

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Pantalone, who began teaching in 1985, is the sister of Toronto deputy mayor Joe Pantalone.