1.   But Douglas Gardner, whose son Douglas Gardner Jr. was one of the students punished in the manure pits, immediately returned his son to the school.

2.   On a more mundane level, they agreed on a strategy to control infestations of flies that bred in uncovered manure pits in the Jordan Valley.

3.   They said that sometimes afterbirth from calving was disposed of in the manure pits.

4.   A board member of a school for troubled youths went on trial Monday on charges he abused students by forcing them to clean out manure pits as punishment.

5.   A statement from CNS International Ministries, Inc., which oversees Heartland, said the practice of sending children into manure pits has been stopped.

6.   A riverfront portion of the arboretum served as a manure pit for the National Zoo.

7.   Five workers at a center for troubled youngsters have been charged with forcing children to stand in a manure pit as punishment.

8.   Five workers at a religious center for troubled youngsters have been charged with forcing children to stand in a manure pit as punishment.

9.   In June, five workers at the Sharpe Farms and Heartland Community Center were accused of forcing misbehaving children to stand in manure pits as punishment.

10.   The couple lived a quarter-mile from a manure pit big enough to hold two football fields.