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posted by martyb on Friday October 21 2016, @12:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the professional-educators dept.

The Epoch Times reports

The family of [13-year-old Columbus, Georgia] student Montravious Thomas claim that behavioral specialist, Bryant Mosley, physically attacked the young student on his first day at AIM/Edgewood Student Services Center on Sept. 12.

[The family's attorney] Renee Tucker, [said that the boy], who was the only student in the classroom, wanted to leave the classroom to call his mother from the main office to pick him up. As Thomas tried to leave the classroom, Mosley slammed him to the floor. When he tried to leave again, he was slammed to the floor again. It's not clear how [many] times this occurred.

Tucker said that assistant principal Eddie Powell reportedly witnessed the incident and a school resources officer observed Thomas limping after the alleged attack.

Thomas was allegedly told that school officials would call an ambulance, but changed their minds. Once classes were dismissed, Mosley carried an injured Thomas to an idle school bus without notifying his family of the events that had transpired.

[...] Since the alleged incident, Thomas has undergone four surgeries. Doctors at Egleston Children's Hospital informed the family on Oct. 16 that [Thomas'] nerve damage was so severe, his right leg would have to be amputated.

U.S. Uncut further reports

The boy's mother was forced to be absent from [work] while [caring] for son and ultimately lost [her job].

Inside sources have reported that the school is in possession of a videotape of the confrontation and the boy's attorney has submitted an open records request to gain possession of the footage in addition to 50 documents related to the incident. They plan to sue the school for $5 million.

[..] Mosley works for Mentoring and Behavioral Services, which claims to conduct "holistic behavior approaches" to student discipline. Mosley is no longer working with the school district, though it has not been confirmed at this time whether this was a result of his confrontation with the student.

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Further details from The Washington Post :

A 13-year-old student in Georgia was badly injured after a behavioral specialist slammed him to the ground multiple times while at school last month, the boy's attorney [ Renee Tucker] said.

Montravious Thomas's injuries — which included a fractured tibia, a dislocated knee and permanent nerve damage — were so severe that his right leg had to be amputated on Tuesday.

[...] Tucker said there were at least three other school employees who saw the incident, but no one took the boy to the hospital after he yelled in pain and said his right leg was numb. Instead, [behavioral specialist Bryant] Mosley carried Montravious to the school bus, and he was driven home.

His mother took him to the hospital, where they arrived around 3:30 p.m. — about 90 minutes after the incident was alleged to have happened.

"The leg was never stabilized until he got to the hospital," Tucker said.

The boy was airlifted to a hospital in Atlanta that night for further examination. Over the next month, Montravious went through four surgeries to save his right leg, Tucker said. It was amputated Tuesday night, and he will soon have to go through physical therapy.


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  • (Score: 2) by Marand on Friday October 21 2016, @11:04AM

    by Marand (1081) on Friday October 21 2016, @11:04AM (#417188) Journal

    It's not "my word against yours" at all. Or at least it won't be for long. From TFS

    It is right now, but like you said, it won't for long. Whether it makes the news or not is anybody's guess, since this sort of thing tends to hit the news for sensationalism, and then when the facts roll in the media goes silent because it's chasing the next headline.

    I hope that isn't the case, though, because I'm interested in finding out what actually happened there. The story as-is sounds like either the teacher went absolutely berserk at random (seems unlikely but not impossible) or something else happened that led to the incident escalating far beyond what it should have.

    Regardless, whatever the catalyst was -- and I think there probably was one rather than a sudden, random attack -- I find it unlikely that the degree of violence was unnecessary. Whatever the reason for the incident, it's hard to imagine needing to go that far, though he may have thought it necessary at the time. Even if Mosley had to defend himself, it should have been possible to do so without all that.

    Note that I'm not speculating on fault or placing blame here, because we don't know enough currently to make a call on it. But it does make a good example of why self-defense classes are important, for either side. Knowing how to defend yourself can help you defuse bad situations less violently than they might play out otherwise. (Unfortunately, I say this from experience getting into [and out of] some bad situations in the past. Knowing some self-defense has saved my ass a few times.)

    As I pointed out, I (through my own experiences) know very well that kids can be vicious little fucks. No blind spot here, friend.

    Maybe not you, but it's amazing how blind people can be about kids. Especially their own, but others as well. Maybe it's a sort of "I can't imagine my kid doing that, so I can't imagine anybody else's doing it either" thing, I don't know. If I knew why I'd probably find the phenomenon less interesting.

    I went back and re-read your comment, and I definitely misread/misinterpreted what you said.

    It's fine, I just had no idea where it came from so I had to ask WTF. It's often hard to tell when someone is misinterpreting what you say vs. intentionally misrepresenting it so I was trying to question it rather than assuming malice. Plus there was always the chance what I said looked like I was saying that, though I didn't see how it could.

    So yeah, don't worry about it, no big deal.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday October 21 2016, @02:40PM

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Friday October 21 2016, @02:40PM (#417266) Journal

    I just had to reply to this thread and say how cool it is to see two people have a serious debate and even get a bit worked up, but then come to understand each other (while acknowledging where they misunderstood too).

    This sort of comment thread is incredibly rare on "that other site," where escalating "slash-and-burn" argumentation has become increasingly common. So, it's a really rare thing to see reasonable discussion (on the internet, in general). Kudos to both of you. Glad to have a place like SoylentNews.