On a child’s first day at school, many parents are understandably nervous for their kids, and hope that when they get home, they have nothing but good things to say about their classmates and teachers.
However, one Georgia mom decided to rush her 13-year-old son to the hospital when he came home from his first day of seventh grade at the Edgewood Student Services Center, which takes students who have been removed from their regular schools because of disruptive behavior, and told her he could no longer walk after what a teacher did to him.
According to the family’s lawyers, Montravious Thomas had tried to leave class on September 12 to call mom Lawanda, but was stopped by Bryant Mosley, a behaviour specialist, who physically restrained him, lifted him up off the ground, and then slammed him onto the ground three times.
At one point, the school’s assistant principal saw what was going on, but did nothing to stop the abuse. And instead of calling an ambulance or Lawanda to report what had happened, Mosley picked the boy up and put him on his school bus since he couldn’t walk. “We don’t know the extent that the injuries were worsened by the failure to render aid and certainly by picking him up and seating him on the school bus,” Renee Tucker said. “Then they had him ride in that same school bus home without any support or stabilization of that leg.”
When Lawanda saw her son try to walk, she immediately brought him to the hospital, where they then airlifted him to an Atlanta hospital and discovered the 13-year-old had such severe nerve damage that his leg would have to be amputated. “My client is certainly aware of the situation and naturally, he’s emotional,’ Tucker said. “Doctors talked to him and his mother on Sunday and told him they were having to take his leg since they were unable to improve the flow of blood to his lower leg. Right now we are all concerned for his long-term health.”
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