A judge approved a settlement this week in the case of a 5-year-old boy whose teacher was charged with unlawful conduct towards a child.
The South Carolina Insurance Reserve Fund will pay $137,500 on behalf of the district to a trust for the boy.
The court order says the incident happened in February and March of 2013 when the mother of a special needs boy filed a complaint that her son was assaulted and mistreated by his teacher, Anna Rogers and a teaching assistant, Linda Warriner.
In April 2013, police charged Rogers with unlawful conduct towards a child after authorities say a then 5-year-old special needs student brought a recorder to Forestbrook Elementary School and secretly recorded the teacher.
The recordings from the boy indicate the boy was sent to an “office” which was actually a five foot square bathroom in the classroom for “being bad,” according to the police report.
Throughout the recording there was another child continuously chanting “bad, bad ” over and over and no one corrected this action or even told him to stop, police noted in the report.
In the court documents, the plaintiffs say that Horry County Schools failed to properly hire, train and supervise its employees and the district was negligent and grossly negligent in its supervision of the child but the district denies any liability.
