A teacher in Nassau County has been accused of tying a non-verbal autistic teen to a chair inside a classroom. The boy's parents are now filing suit.
A teacher in Nassau County has been accused of abusing a non-verbal autistic teen inside a classroom.The teen's parents, Carlos and Karla Diaz, say their son was found tied to a chair in a classroom, and they weren’t told about it until the next day."If it wasn't for the officers who came to the house, we wouldn't have been aware of the actual situation," said his mother.On Thursday they filed a notice of claim against the Sewanhaka School district.
According to the police report, a teacher for special needs students tied a rope around his stomach."I don't understand what happened," said his father. "I don’t know how many times this happened. I don’t know if it’s the first or second time. I don’t know."In a statement, the district says once they found out about the alleged incident, the teacher was removed from the classroom.
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