An Adams County mother filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging her disabled 12-year-old son was left unattended at his Westminster elementary school, slid down a ramp in his wheelchair and crashed …
The mother of this Adams County child with disabilities is suing his school district after her son allegedly broke both of his legs at school when he was unsupervised and his wheelchair slipped down a ramp.
“Their failure to properly supervise him is what resulted in this catastrophic injury and then they made it worse because they minimized the effects of what happened,” said Igor Raykin, the attorney representing Patricia Portillo Estrada and her boy, who is not named in the lawsuit.According to the lawsuit, the Rocky Mountain Elementary School student — who has intellectual disabilities and orthopedic, as well as speech and language, impairments — was left unsupervised on May 10, 2022.
The IEP also said the child required “safety monitoring from staff throughout the day due to medical, mobility and functional issues,” according to the lawsuit. “The school took no action to investigate the Plaintiff’s incident, nor the cause of his injury,” the lawsuit said. “Without knowledge of the accident, and with no information from the School, Ms. Portillo Estrada had no way of knowing the severity of the Plaintiff’s injury.”
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