West Valley High cheerleader Susan Mitchell remained suspended hogtied in mid-air for what seemed like an eternity for her, but in reality was only about 15 minutes as the teachers' wrapped up their professional development session. Several of the teachers were tasked with undoing the bondage they had placed the young girl in and then she was sent off for class for the day. Headmaster Krutz informed her that her new school uniform would be no clothes of any kind unless he provided them and that the steel handcuffs would remain around her wrists permanently unless he removed them. Susan was happy to get to attend her classes that day, although walking around naked in handcuffs in front of everyone was not how she had hoped to spend her senior year.
She reported to the headmaster's office as required on Tuesday morning and Krutz told her to report to Mr. Rydberger's classroom, where he informed her she would be helping him with a history lesson for his classes.
Mr. Rydberger greeted her at the door and informed her that he was starting a unit on medieval history and needed some assistance showing his classes life in medieval times. The young girl didn't think this sounded that bad until she saw some of the devices laid out on the teacher's desk.
When the first class came in and was seated, the history teacher began with a brief overview of the lesson plan, which was to focus on medieval torture devices. "The device I will demonstrate in this class is known as the 'brank' or 'scold's bridle'. It was supposedly used primarily on women who slandered their husbands or otherwise could not keep their mouths shut."
Rydberged picked up the device and showed it to the class. It was a metal cage with a metal peg sticking out from it. He picked it up and placed it over Susan's head, and the metal peg pressed down on her tongue as he tightened the device around her head. "As you can see, the bridle makes it impossible for the subject to move her tongue," he said. "If we had wanted to inflict pain upon our subject, we could have used a peg, or curb plate, with spikes or barbs on it, so if she tried to speak, it would injure her tongue and mouth". Susan was relieve the teacher hadn't pursued this option.
"In medieval times, once a shrew was restrained, she would be led through town wearing the bridle to enhance her humiliation. Mr. Jennings, could you come forward and take Miss Mitchell over to Mr. Kylie's history class so they can see our victim and her punishment?"
Jack Jennings came up and grabbed Susan's handcuffed wrists and pulled her toward the classroom door. With the bridle in place, she couldn't resist and show she plodded along beside him to the classroom down the hall. Mr. Kylie showed them in and Jack pulled Susan up and down each row so the students could get a closer look at the scold's bridle. He then returned to Mr. Rydberger's classroom, where he did the same. Rydberger lectured for the rest of the period on various medieval history topics with Susan standing naked and silent in front of the classroom.
For the next period, Rydberger introduced another device. This one was a large metal rod with two large forks on either side. He explained that it was called the heretic's fork. This particularly fork's tines were rounded, but he explained the real device would have had sharp spikes on both ends.
He placed one end of the device under Susan's chin and the other against her chest and used a piece of leather to tie the rod around the girl's neck. In this position, she was forced to hold her head up in the air.
"As you can see, Miss Mitchell cannot lower her head," the teacher explained. "A person wearing this device would usually be restrained in some way, perhaps suspended in air. They could not fall asleep or else the sharp points of the forks would penetrate their chest or throat. Now obviously here we have rounded off those points so as not to kill Miss Mitchell..." Susan was relieved once again, although the device was causing her quite a bit of agony all by itself. As the bell rang for third period, Susan was hoping for some relief, but didn't get any. She still wore the bridle and the fork and now Rydberger had produced a rather insidious looking device.
"The girls in the class may want to look away as we use our next implement," he said. "It was commonly known as 'the breast ripper'. Susan did not like the sound of that and moved slightly away from the teacher and brought her handcuff wrists up to cover her tits.
The breast ripper looked like a large pair of kitchen tongs with two metal cups on each end. Mr. Rydberger explained to the class that the original breast ripper would have had metal spikes inside the cups to penetrate the woman's breasts. Several of the girls in the class brought their arms up over the own breasts at the thought of this device. The teacher explained he had replaced the metal spikes with small metal nubs instead. "Enough to cause discomfort, but not permanent injury," he told Susan. "Gee, thanks," she thought to herself behind her gag. The teacher asked Mike Stanton to come up and hold down Susan's hands while he placed the cups around her right breast. He squeezed the handles together and the metal clamped against the girl's sensitive globes. He applied only light pressure at first and she felt the metal nubs against her skin. Then he pressed down hard and squeezed her boob and she would have screamed in pain if not for the bridle around her head. "Imagine what that would have felt like if the spikes had been in place," the teacher said to the class.
Rydberger released the device and Susan relaxed for a moment, but only for a moment, because he then went to work on her left breast. This time, he not only squeezed hard against her flesh but began twisting the clamps as well, causing a whole other kind of pain for the cheerleader. Throughout the period, the teacher would reapply the ripper to one of Susan's breasts, sometimes twisting, sometimes yanking on her tender flesh. She was never as happy as to hear a bell ring as she was when this period was over.
For period four, Susan was asked to sit in a wooden chair beside the teacher's desk. She was happy to be off her feet although she really wanted the heretic's fork to be removed as her neck was cramping from having to hold her head up. But she hoped that Rydberger was finished with the breast ripper!
"Our next torture device is one many of you may have heard of," the teacher said to the class. He pulled out a strange looking device that he placed over Susan's right wrist. The device had five rings attached to it and Susan was told to place her fingers through the rings. The device was then fastened to the desktop, pinning her hand to the wooden surface.
Rydberger then pulled out a bag containing metal screws. "This device is a variation on the medieval torture device known as 'thumb screws'," he explained. "I take one of these screws and place it through the holes in the top of the rings, like so." He turned the screw through the hole above Susan's right index finger until it touched her finger and then followed up with the other four screws.
