A mother Sandy Rougely is looking for answers and justice after her daughter returned from camp with neck injury according to ABC News. The mother thinks her child was the victim of racially motivated bullying from classmates. Her daughter was one of two Black students on the trip, The Dallas Morning News reports.
“It looked like somebody had ripped her neck apart and stitched it back together,” the girl’s mother told The Dallas Morning News this week.
According to ABC News, Rougely has since hired a lawyer to file a personal injury claim against the Live Oak Classical School, the private school her sixth-grade daughter attends. Her attorney, Levi McCathern, requested the school to pay $2.7 million in damages or else the allegations would be made public. Their asking price is based on living expenses, private school through the 12th grade, and college so the young girl can pursue a degree in law or medicine, The Dallas Morning News reports.
A statement released by the school claims that the young girl’s injury was “caused accidentally” as a group of students played with a rope swing attached to a tree. Jeremy Counseller, a member of the private school’s board of directors, also e-mailed a statement to The Dallas Morning Newsdetailing the incident
“…The student and some of her classmates were playing with a swing and an attached pull-rope on a field trip,” Counsellor wrote. “The student received first aid treatment immediately after the accident by a parent chaperone who is also a physician, and she was able to enjoy the remainder of the field trip, which lasted through the next day. Live Oak takes the safety of its students seriously and is saddened that one of its family suffered an unfortunate accident and injury.”
His statement also accuses Roughley’s lawyer of using race to exploit the school, as well as the 100th anniversary of Jesse Washington’s lynching in Waco, for financial gain.
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