Teen With Autism Dies After Being Restrained For OVER AN HOUR -- School Staff Indicted
28.07.2022 - 01:15
/ perezhilton.com
Three former employees of a California school for special needs have been indicted following the death of one of their students.
Max Benson was a 13-year-old autistic student at Guiding Hands School — a private academy for children and teens with special needs. On November 28, 2018 it’s alleged the boy became “violent” during class and because of this staff at the school restrained him. The type of restraint the employees allegedly used was a “prone restraint”. You may recognize this as a method of holding someone down, often on the ground, where their face and frontal part of their body is placed flat against a surface. This type of restraint is widely controversial and as of 2021 over 30 states have banned the use of it in schools.
Benson was allegedly held face down by staff for over 90 minutes. During this time he vomited and urinated on himself until he eventually stopped breathing. It’s alleged it took 10 minutes for a school nurse to arrive and perform CPR to revive him. It took even longer, a full half hour after he lost consciousness, for the school employees to call paramedics.
Just awful and absolutely infuriating…
The teen was transported to Mercy Hospital in Folsom, but would never recover. He ultimately succumbed to his injuries and passed two days later. He was only 13 years old. Just heartbreaking…
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A week after the boy’s death, the California Department of Education suspended the school’s certification due to its failure to notify them of the circumstances surrounding the incident. The school also violated multiple state rules regarding the use of physical restraints on students. This wasn’t the first time either —
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