Mother Sues Chicago Public Schools for Injuries to Minor After Son Breaks Femur While Class was Left Unattended
Sandra Castrejon is seeking at least $50,000 from Chicago public schools for her son’s personal injuries. She claims her son broke his right femur when his 7th grade teacher left a classroom of junior high school students alone.
In her Chicago injuries to a minor lawsuit, Castrejon claims that the room became a war zone and a fight broke out. Someone pushed her son and he fell to the ground, which caused him to sustain physical injuries. Castrejon is alleging negligence and accuses the teacher of “reckless disregard” of the students’ safety by deciding to leave them unattended.
Chicago Injury Lawsuits
If your child was injured while on a school premise, you may have grounds for filing a Chicago injuries to a child complaint. Schools are supposed to make sure that kids are properly supervised at all times and there are no unsafe conditions, dangerous persons, weapons, or other hazards that can cause serious injuries or deaths.
Parents send their kids off to school every day with the hope that they get a good education and that they won’t come to any harm while there. Unfortunately, with all the violent crimes that take place on school grounds it is no big surprise that many parents and kids are afraid of what can happen. School kids have become the victims of shootings, stabbings, sexual assaults, bullying, verbal abuse, and emotional abuse. In many cases, the assailants are fellow students. You may be able to hold the school and/or district, school system, or other parties liable for the injuries that your child sustained while at school.
CPS teacher negligent for leaving 7th graders unattended: lawsuit, Chicago Sun-Times, April 21, 2010
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Student Violence - Warning Signs, TeachersFirst.com
