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 Sarasota School Board Lawsuits 29 April 2012
| The Sarasota County School Board will give $50,000 to the family of a Lamarque
Elementary School student whose parents claimed their son was hit and yanked
from his chair by kindergarten teacher Gail Huntley in 2008.
The other award of $62,500 will be paid to settle a negligence lawsuit filed
by the parents of a Laurel Nokomis School student who shattered her elbow in
the school playground.
School Board attorney Art Hardy recommended board members approve both
settlements. He said there was no guarantee the district would not end up
paying more if the cases went to court.
"Anytime you are looking at settling a lawsuit, you are looking at the risks
of proceeding or settling," Hardy said. "Both sides are at a point where we're
at, is a reasonable place to compromise."
According to statements from school employees in 2008, Huntley, 54, was
sometimes rough in her handling of special education students.
One school worker reported that Huntley pinched a child on the neck to make
the student sit down. Another said Huntley shouted in the ear of a child who
would not quiet down.
She was placed on paid administrative leave for six months while the claims
were investigated. The State Attorney's Office declined to bring any charges
in the case. Huntley received a verbal reprimand from the district. She
resumed teaching at Lamarque in North Port.
The negligence lawsuit was filed after a girl in kindergarten suffered a
shattered elbow after falling from the monkey bars at the playground at Laurel
Nokomis on March 4, 2010.
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Teacher Arrested For Sexual Battery 9 March 2012
| A karate instructor at the Sarasota School of Arts and Sciences is being held
in Sarasota County jail without bond following charges he had sex seven years
ago with a student in his classroom.
The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office has arrested John Garcia, 47 of 2816
Poplar St., Sarasota, for allegedly having sex with a student seven years ago.
Garcia was taken into custody Friday morning and charged with Custodial Sexual
Battery on a Child, according to the sheriff's office.
A former student told detectives that Garcia had sex with her in his classroom
when he was 41-years-old and she was just 14-years-old, according to the
sheriff's office.
The victim, who is now 21 years old, had told her brothers about the incident,
who then notified the sheriff's office, according to the probable cause
affidavit.
The sheriff's office set up a phone call between the victim and Garcia where
Garcia called her sweetie and babe and said "we weren't really boyfriend and
girlfriend," according to the affidavit.
When the victim brought up the two had sex, Garcia said "we never
really...really did...did all the way thing," according to the affidavit.
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