The parent of an autistic pupil who alleged that an simple peculiar acquisition teacher’s adjunct body slammed her son past April volition beryllium awarded a $1 cardinal colony successful her suit against the Clark County School District.
The Clark County School Board connected Thursday approved the seven-figure payment, which is related to a 2025 suit brought against the territory and 3 of its employees by Yazmina Ruiz connected behalf of her son, identified successful tribunal filings arsenic John Doe.
The suit alleged that the battle was captured connected schoolhouse surveillance video and that it showed teacher’s adjunct Alicia Fletcher “forcefully” drawback the then-10-year-old boy’s limb and hitch ungraded into his hairsbreadth astatine Red Rock Elementary School connected April 24, 2025.
Fletcher aboriginal grabbed the boy’s limb and “body slammed” him against a factual planter adjacent the school’s jungle gym, according to the lawsuit.
Teacher Heidi Hunter and information show Deonte Harris were named arsenic defendants successful the ailment arsenic well, accused of failing to support the lad from Fletcher’s alleged assault.
Court records amusement the Clark County territory attorney’s bureau declined to prosecute transgression charges against Fletcher, and neither Hunter nor Harris were charged with a transgression related to the alleged incident.
In tribunal filings related to the lawsuit, Fletcher’s lawyers claimed she was “without capable cognition to signifier a content arsenic to the information of the allegations” successful Ruiz’s suit “and truthful denies same.”
Lisa Zastrow, who represents Fletcher, said successful an email Thursday that the colony includes nary admittance of liability oregon wrongdoing by Fletcher and “will resoluteness the lawsuit and let each progressive to determination forward.”
Attorneys for the district, Harris and Hunter successful tribunal filings denied the allegations that Ruiz’s suit brought against them. The lawyers did not respond to a petition for remark Thursday.
Ruiz’s attorney, Andre Lagomarsino, declined to remark connected the lawsuit connected Thursday earlier the committee meeting. He antecedently said that Ruiz’s household was “disappointed to perceive that (Fletcher) was not prosecuted for behaviour that was intelligibly caught connected video that harmed” the boy.
The Thursday ballot allows Superintendent Jhone Ebert, the schoolhouse committee and the territory to motion the colony agreement. It besides authorizes wide counsel Jon Okazaki to execute the agreement.
The support marked the 2nd million-dollar colony awarded by the committee this schoolhouse year. Two parents of a peculiar needs teen were approved a settlement successful their suit wherever they claimed a substitute teacher deed their lad with a shoe.
At slightest 3 schoolhouse territory educators person been arrested for allegedly battering oregon assaulting peculiar needs students since the schoolhouse year’s commencement connected Aug. 10.
One Las Vegas simple schoolhouse teacher dragged a peculiar needs student by his shirt, according to police. Another simple pedagogue slapped the manus of a peculiar needs pupil earlier causing different to autumn and split unfastened his forehead, constabulary said. A 3rd simple idiosyncratic connected Wednesday was arrested aft constabulary alleged she slapped a peculiar needs six-year-old with a stack of papers.
Contact Spencer Levering astatine slevering@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0253.
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