The boy attempted to jump out of the back bus door a week prior to his passing.
by Erica L. Green -
The family of a 6-year-old?special-needs student?who died after he jumped from a moving school bus has filed an $80 million lawsuit alleging negligence on the part of the?Baltimore school system?and the contractor hired to transport him.
The boy?s mother, Lisa Avery, filed the lawsuit this month, accusing the school system and the bus personnel of?M.R. Hopkins Transportation Services Inc. of failing to ensure the safety of her emotionally disturbed son, Jeremy C. Jennings Jr., who had a history of impulsive behavior.
That behavior, the lawsuit says, included attempting to jump out of school buses ? which he tried to do one week before his fatal fall Dec. 8, 2010. He died of head injuries two days later at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The lawsuit also alleges that the boy?s?Individualized Education Plan, which required him to have a safety vest on the bus, was not being implemented.
And on the day he fell,, no adult on the bus tried to stop him, the suit says. The family?s attorney said the events leading to his fall were captured by a video camera on the bus.
?Jeremy?s death was tragic and entirely avoidable,? said William ?Hassan? Murphy III, who is representing Avery. ?The system that was designed to nurture and teach him, in fact, failed him repeatedly and ultimately caused his death.?
Jeremy died Dec. 10, two days after he caused a commotion before jumping from the back of the school bus ? staffed by a driver and two aides ? into traffic on Pot Spring Road. The bus was hired by the city school system to transport him to his West Baltimore home from Villa Maria at?St. Vincent?s, the Catholic special-education school he attended in Baltimore County.
Villa Maria, owned by Catholic Charities of Baltimore, is also named as a defendant in the suit. A spokesperson for Catholic Charities said the organization does not comment on pending litigation. Baltimore City school officials also declined to comment, citing pending litigation.
Read more at?Family of special needs student who died from bus fall sues city school system
[Via the Baltimore Sun]
Source: http://specialedpost.com/2012/08/22/family-sues-district-when-ed-boy-jumps-to-death-from-bus-2/
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