A school administrator has been charged with child abuse in connection with a school shooting, making it the first case of its kind. The administrator, Ebony Parker, faces eight counts of child abuse. A special grand jury is investigating security lapses that led to the shooting and will release its findings soon.
by a 6-year-old student, the first case experts said they were aware of in which an administrator had been charged in connection with the handling of a school shooting .
“Maybe 10 or 15 years ago people could say, ‘I wasn’t educated. I didn’t know this could happen. I thought the kid was too young to have a gun.’” Astor said. “But in this day and age with all the data, reporting and training it’s really problematic for a vice principal not to follow up on these warnings.”Prosecutors have shown a growing willingness to pursue criminal prosecutions for lapses that have led to gunfire at schools and experts said they think more such cases are likely to come.
“Upon hearing that information, Assistant Principal Parker had no response, refusing even to look up at Plaintiff when she expressed her concerns,” the suit alleges. The reading specialist then searched the boy’s backpack, but did not find the gun, according to the lawsuit. The specialist went to the office and told Parker that students had said he had a gun, but Parker allegedly responded the boy’s pockets were too small to hold a gun and did nothing.After recess, Zwerner’s lawsuit alleges a student told a teacher that the 6-year-old boy had shown him a gun on the playground and threatened to shoot the boy if he told anyone.
“I remember the gun going off. I remember feeling something,” Zwerner said in one of her only interviews about the incident. “I was terrified. In that moment, my initial reaction was, ‘Your kids need to get out of here. This is not a safe classroom anymore.'”The bullet tore through Zwerner’s hand and chest, but she managed to evacuate all her students from the classroom, police said. Zwerner was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening wounds.
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