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Monday, November 10, 2014

Mother's fury after finding that teachers had locked her disabled daughter, 7, in makeshift CAGE at elementary school

  • Ledelldra Brooks says she found her 7-year-old daughter wearing a dirty diaper inside the pen made from a toddler gate and a crib gate attached to bookshelves
  • Brooks had showed up unannounced at the girl's 1st grade classroom at Viking Elementary School in Fresno in May
  • Has filed a legal claim as precursor to potential lawsuit
  • The mother of a developmentally disabled girl claims her daughter's former special education teacher put the child in a gated enclosure that the mother said amounted to a cage
The mother of a developmentally disabled girl has filed a legal claim against her daughter's former special education teacher for allegedly putting the child in a gated enclosure that the mother said amounted to a cage.
Ledelldra Brooks told The Fresno Bee she found her 7-year-old daughter wearing a dirty diaper inside the pen made from a toddler gate and a crib gate attached to bookshelves when she showed up unannounced at the girl's first grade classroom at Viking Elementary School in Fresno in May.
Brooks called the police, who dismantled the unit and referred the results of their investigation to the district attorney as a possible case of misdemeanor child abuse.

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