BRIDGEPORT — Stamford school officials failed to take action when a 5-year-old child was threatened by a classmate resulting in the boy later being sexually assaulted by the same classmate, a lawsuit claims.
The suit, filed in Superior Court here on behalf of the parents of the 5-year-old, states that the principal and staff of the Roxbury Elementary School breached their obligation to keep the young boy safe and violated state law by failing to report the incidents to the state Department of Children and Families.
Norwalk lawyer Michael Skiber, who represents the parents of the 5-year-old boy, declined comment on the lawsuit.
Stamford school officials did not immediately return calls for comment.
In mid-May 2018, the mother of the 5-year-old boy complained to her son’s teacher that a classmate of her son had crawled under a bathroom stall that her son had locked and blocked the 5-year-old from leaving the stall, according to the lawsuit. The suit states the aggressor student then stabbed the 5-year-old with a pencil and begged him to “die here with me.”
Despite being informed of the incident, the suit states that school officials took no action to keep the boys separate.
On May 21, 2018, the lawsuit states that the 5-year-old was excused by his teacher to go to the bathroom. While he was in the stall the aggressor student went into the stall with the boy and sexually assaulted him, causing him serious injury, the suit states.
As a result of the assault, the suit states that the 5-year-old boy suffered serious and permanent physical and psychological injuries that will require treatment.
On its website, the state Department of Children and Families instructs...
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