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| Subject: Student forced to urinate in bucket by teacher wins $1.3m lawsuit Thu Jan 26, 2017 4:11 pm | |
| A California school district has been ordered to pay $1.25m (£994,000) to a former student who urinated in a bucket after she was denied a toilet break.
A Superior Court jury sided with the former student, who sued the district and a teacher over the 2012 incident.
The district denied the student's initial $25,000 claim, in which she said the incident led to lewd texts, depression and a suicide attempt.
The school said the teacher had never intended to embarrass the student.
Rather, the teacher attempted to find a solution to what she mistakenly thought was a strict, no-toilet break policy, lawyers for the San Diego Unified School District said.
In a "lapse of judgment, she thought that was a good idea", said Katheryn Martin, the school district's attorney.
The Patrick Henry High School student, now 19, said her teacher Gonja Wolk had rejected her request to go to the bathroom, according to the lawsuit.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38760559 |
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