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The sadism seeping through our society: School staff force student to eat his own vomit [1]

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Date: 2023-04-27  

NBC News, through their affiliate WTHR, is reporting a horrific incident that occurred at Brown Elementary in Brownsburg, Indiana. Five school staff members are accused of forcing a child to eat his own vomit.

It happened in February, during a lunch period. Jennifer Barrett of the Brownsburg Police Department described what occurred that day, for which there is video evidence.

“He is eating some food, and at some point he goes to stand up and he looks as if he’s gagging,” Ms. Barrett said. “It appears that he’s then instructed to sit back down.”

WRTV, an ABC affiliate also reporting on the story, adds to this account that two instructional aides were involved in this reprimand, with an explicit warning that if he did vomit, he would have to eat it. Continuing on with the statement provided by police, Ms. Barrett said:

“At which point, within a few seconds to a few minutes, he actually does proceed to projectile vomit onto a tray and onto the lunch table in front of him.”

An instructional aide then handed the child a spoon, where he then took “several bites,” according to both WTHR and WRTV.

Police say the incident would have remained unknown were it not for another investigation, where details of this frankly abusive episode surfaced.

Even worse, the child has special needs with memory problems. WRTV reports that the student is a seven-year-old with autism who was unable to verbally communicate what happened to him. Without investigation of the first, unrelated incident, who knows if this depravity ever would have come to light.

Three of the staff members are on leave while two face termination. Those two were a teacher and an aide who, according to police, were standing on either side of the student as he was made to consume this rancid meal. The decision to move ahead with that possibility of firing will be addressed May 8th, during a school board meeting.

UPDATE: All staff members involved have now been charged with crimes, according to WISH-TV.

Brown Elementary Life Skills Teacher Sara Seymour, 27, was charged with neglect of a dependent as a Level 6 felony, and failure to report, a Class B misdemeanor.

27, was charged with neglect of a dependent as a Level 6 felony, and failure to report, a Class B misdemeanor. Brown Elementary Life Skills Instructional Aide Debra Kanipe , 63, was charged with neglect of a dependent as a Level 6 felony, and failure to report, a Class B misdemeanor.

, 63, was charged with neglect of a dependent as a Level 6 felony, and failure to report, a Class B misdemeanor. Brown Elementary Life Skills Teacher Julie Taylor , 48, was charged with failure to report, a Class B misdemeanor.

, 48, was charged with failure to report, a Class B misdemeanor. Brown Elementary Life Skills Instructional Aide Kristen Mitchell , 38, was charged with failure to report, a Class B misdemeanor.

, 38, was charged with failure to report, a Class B misdemeanor. K1ds Count Registered Behavioral Technician Megan King, 24, was charged with failure to report, a Class B misdemeanor.

Thanks, varro, for the update.

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