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AURORA, Colo.—A lawsuit claims a developmentally disabled 5-year-old was regularly strapped into a chair in an Aurora school and that a teacher once refused to release her because she “had not been broken yet.”
The suit, filed this week in Denver federal court, seeks unspecified damages.
Defendants are the Aurora school district, the school board and several educators. A school district spokeswoman declined to comment on the specifics of the suit.
The lawsuit identifies the girl only as “A.B.”
Her family’s attorney, Jack Robinson, says the girl has epilepsy and other impairments and didn’t need to be restrained.
Robinson says the girl, now 8 years old, is doing well in the Cherry Creek School District.
