Parent of 6-year-old survivor of Sandy Hook Elementary massacre blames school, sues for $100 million

I don’t know about this one. It’s not like the school hadn’t taken security measures to protect their children. And something of this magnitude is so rare that it seems impossible to prevent without turning the school into a prison with iron bars on the windows and armed guards around the school. Teachers carrying concealed weapons could have certainly prevented deaths but we all know that even that isn’t full-proof.

I understand the children that survived are traumatized psychologically in ways I’ll never understand considering the horror that occurred in that school. But I don’t see how the school is to blame and it seems a stretch to turn this into a lawsuit.

YAHOO NEWS – A $100 million claim on behalf of a 6-year-old survivor is the first legal action to come out of the Connecticut school shooting that left 26 children and adults dead two weeks ago.

The unidentified client, referred to as Jill Doe, heard “cursing, screaming, and shooting” over the school intercom when the gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, opened fire, according to the claim filed by New Haven-based attorney Irv Pinsky.

“As a consequence, the … child has sustained emotional and psychological trauma and injury, the nature and extent of which are yet to be determined,” the claim said.

Pinsky said he filed a claim on Thursday with state Claims Commissioner J. Paul Vance Jr., whose office must give permission before a lawsuit can be filed against the state.

“We all know its going to happen again,” Pinsky said on Friday. “Society has to take action.”

Twenty children and six adults were shot dead on December 14 at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The children were all 6 and 7 years old.

Pinsky’s claim said that the state Board of Education, Department of Education and Education Commissioner had failed to take appropriate steps to protect children from “foreseeable harm.”

It said they had failed to provide a “safe school setting” or design “an effective student safety emergency response plan and protocol.”

Pinsky said he was approached by the child’s parents within a week of the shooting.


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