A New Jersey school district has agreed to pay $4.2 million to settle a lawsuit by a middle school student who was paralyzed when a known bully punched him in the abdomen.
The settlement between the Ramsey school district and the family of Sawyer Rosenstein, who had complained to the district about being bullied, was worked out over the past two months but not made public until last week.
The family's lawsuit alleged school officials knew or should have known the boy's attacker had violent tendencies and failed to comply with a state anti-bullying law, said the Rosensteins' attorney, Jeffrey Youngman. The boy had punched another student in the face on a school bus a year earlier, but the school kept no record of it or other attacks and the attacker was not subjected to escalating discipline, the suit said.
- NJ bully's paralyzing punch nets $4.2M settlement
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lynn82md wrote in 
bullying_begone- April 19th, 2012
2012-04-19 04:46 pm (UTC)
I have a friend who lives close to there; I wonder if she's heard anything about this...and Lord. If the districts' actions are representative of the "leading edge" in NJ anti-bullying practices...I'm glad I got out of NJ public schools with just emotional scars, not those PLUS physical ones.
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