A 6-year-old Long Island girl was sexually assaulted in an unsupervised classroom by three female classmates – and a teacher who finally entered the area did nothing to stop the attack, according to a shocking federal lawsuit obtained by The Post.
Naudia Reid, an accountant, claims that her daughter was stripped below the waist in a rear portion of a classroom at the New Visions Magnet School in Freeport by a trio of first grade girls who sexually assaulted her, according to court papers.
Her disturbing suit claims that a teacher who entered the area to retrieve a book saw her daughter half-naked and curled up – but took no action.
“The school just tried to brush this off,” Reid told The Post of the April 2013 incident. “When you drop your kids off at school you expect them to be safe. You expect to pick them up the same way you dropped them off. I don’t understand how this could happen.”
Reid said that her daughter suddenly began having intense nightmares after the attack and that she had her see a psychologist to understand why.
“She was scared to say anything at first,” Reid said. ‘She was blaming herself. But she finally told us what happened.”
Reid – who immediately pulled her out of the school – said that principal Renee Crump Dedmon called her after the incident top tell her that something unseemly happened but failed to relay the true extent of the attack.
“She just told me that some girls bullied my daughter and that I should tell her not to let them do that,” Reid recalled. “But she never gave me the full story.”
Reid said that the principal told her that another student who witnessed the attack alerted administrators and that other kids have corroborated her account.
“This abhorrent act would never have happened if the school had properly supervised the classroom,” said her attorney, Vesselin Mitev of Ray, Mitev and Associates.
“The principal kept telling me that they were going to investigate it, that they were going to talk to the parents of the kids that did this, that they would get back to me,” Reid said. “But there was nothing. So that’s when i decided to do something.”
An attorney for the school, Laura Endrizzi, would not comment on the lawsuit.
Reid said her daughter, now 8, suffered severe emotional trauma from the attack and that she’s trying to stem the damage.
“As a parent this is so hard,” she said. “You have so many questions. Why weren’t the police called when the principal found out? Why didn’t they do anything?”
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