Autistic boy says arm was twisted by school staff member - Radio New Zealand
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An autistic boy told police investigating a special needs school in Dunedin that a staff member twisted his arm 25 times and locked him in a dark room.
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The police report said there was scope to prosecute the main suspect over claims, backed by four staff members, that she would push her fingernail into a child's nail to make them comply.
But it noted that this would rely on evidence mostly from two people whose credibility was an issue because they had shown a dislike or disapproval or made previous trivial allegations against the two suspects.
Police concluded it was, for most of the allegations, one person's word against another, so there was no reasonable prospect of a conviction.
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All witnesses noted how difficult the children's behaviour was.
The police report said violence of students to each other or staff included "punching, hair pulling and the throwing of objects like chairs across the classroom".
A teacher told police it was "regularly loud and wild and out of control with a lot of yelling".
It looks like the kid the bad luck of having the wrong people witness what was done to him. More generally it seems the staff lost control of that school.
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22 Dec 2016, 4:43 am
