PUEBLO, Colo.—Pueblo City Schools plans to fight a lawsuit charging staff members at a school with illegally restraining a special education student two years ago.
The lawsuit, filed this week in federal court in Denver, alleges Bessemer Academy employees routinely restrained the student in a “secure wrap-around table,” and at one point broke the girl’s arm. The wrap-around tables were designed for children with orthopedic problems.
Court records identify the girl only as “Ebonie S.” Her age wasn’t released, but Bessemer is a preschool through eighth-grade school.
District spokesman Greg Sinn on Friday produced a copy of a police report in which officers determined the girl’s broken arm occurred before she arrived at school that day.
Sinn called the allegations in the suit “unfounded” and said the district plans to vigorously defend itself.
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Information from: The Pueblo Chieftain,
