The Court of Appeal maintains $ 1 million in the school judgment at school

A school area in California failed in its appeal over a judgment in a million dollars after a former student student sued the district so as not to protect her from other students’ bullying.

Eleri Irons, who participated in El Segundo Middle School, submitted a mood in 2019 against El Segundo Unified School District, claiming that she experienced “bullying, plagues and aggression” of three “well -known bullies,” Today and Mercury News reported. The incidents took place in 2017 on schooling and on school -monitored trips.

In 2022, a jury found that El Segundo Unified School District had negligently failed to protect irons and that negligence caused the iron to suffer injuries. The jury awarded Iron’s $ 1 million in damages, according to court documents from the California Appeals Court, which was submitted on Friday, June 13 and obtained by people.

In its decision on Friday, California maintained the Court of Appeal’s judgment and decided that the district has not established a majority of the issues raised in its appeal and “has not fulfilled its burden to show any prejudices.”

Act of actionA company that represents iron, said on a Monday June 16, news message that as a result of “relentless bullying and emotional abuse” from its classmates, its client “endured months of verbal harassment, cruel rumors and finally a presentation entitled” End the Life of Eleri Irons “which circulated.”

“Although they were aware of the threats, school officials failed to take meaningful action, failed to announce their parents and failed to follow their own policy against bullying,” added the law firm.

The legislation said that the court’s decision “confirmed the jury’s finding that school employees failed in their compulsory obligation to protect a vulnerable child.”

In September 2022, Irons told Today That the bullying began after a “love triangle” ended her friendship with two of the girls. They then egged on a third to harass the iron, she said. At that time, the students were 13 and 14, the outlet reported.

Christa Ramey, Iron’s lawyer, previously said that her client experienced post -traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and self -injury due to harassment, The Mercury news reported.

After the verdict in 2022, the jury sent, El Segundo Unified School District appealed according to the California appealed court.

The district claimed that iron failed to prove that her injuries were the result of negligence from El Segundo Middle School employees; that the trial “made mistakes in allowing” irons “to rely on various provisions in the education code to support her negligence requirements; and that the court would not have excluded testimonies from one of the expert’s expert witnesses.

People contacted El Segundo Unified School District and its lawyers for comment on Thursday, June 17.

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Iron told Today 2022 that she forgives her classmates.

“I always wanted to benefit them from doubt because I (once) valued their friendship,” Irons said at that time. “They also didn’t get the intervention they needed. The school failed with me and them.”