Hunter
05/24/22
A suit filed in October last year claims that Clear Creek Amana schools didn’t protect a girl after her paraeducator allegedly pinched her inner thigh and touched her inappropriately.
The Press-Citizen says the girl’s parents, Ingrid Cobb-Ellick and Michael Ellick Jr. filed the suit and named the school district, former superintendent Tim Kuehl, Associate Superintendent and former elementary school principal Matt Leeman, and Kelly Giese, the girl’s aide.
The suit claims Giese committed assault and battery on their daughter, and a safety plan created in response prohibited contact between the two; the District says the plan didn’t prohibit contact.
The newspaper reports that girl said told her parents in January of 2020 that she didn’t want to go back to school because she was afraid of the paraeducator and thought that Giese would hurt her.
The family says the district’s actions, or lack thereof, constitute discrimination against their daughter based on her race, sex and disability status. They’re seeking unspecified compensatory damages.