A parent is suing the Clark County School District, accusing a Las Vegas simple schoolhouse peculiar acquisition teacher of abusing her non-verbal pre-kindergarten lad past schoolhouse year.
The complaint, filed Tuesday by Aryana Togafau connected behalf of her son, identified successful tribunal filings arsenic P.W., requests a assemblage proceedings to resoluteness claims of artillery and negligence alleged against the territory and Hickey Elementary School teacher Michelle Molloy, main Kim Barra and adjunct main Michael Blume.
Togafau’s suit alleges that Molloy physically, emotionally and verbally abused Togafau’s lad and different disabled students astatine Hickey Elementary betwixt October 2025 and March 2026 portion the district, Barra and Blume failed to study Molloy oregon intervene contempt being alert of her suspected kid abuse.
In an email Wednesday, Molloy said she was not alert of the suit against her.
“Somebody accused maine of doing those things backmost successful March and I’ve gone done each the due channels and aft investigations, I had been released of immoderate wrongdoing,” Molloy said. “I honestly don’t cognize thing astir this.”
Barra, Blume and the schoolhouse territory each did not respond to an emailed petition for comment.
Anh Phoong, an lawyer representing Togafau, said successful an emailed connection that she believes lawsuits similar the 1 filed by Togafau amusement a request for cameras successful peculiar acquisition classrooms, adding that her steadfast intends to revive authorities to execute that. She called the contented “bigger than 1 suit and 1 child.”
“These are immoderate of our astir susceptible kids,” Phoong said. “They merit better, and we request existent changes successful spot to support them.”
Lawsuit: Teacher flicked boy, dragged students
Teacher assistants successful Molloy’s pre-K schoolroom reported seeing Molloy flick Togafau’s autistic lad connected his caput erstwhile helium wasn’t listening, outcry astatine the lad and different students for insignificant issues and resistance students astir her classroom, the ailment alleged.
The suit claimed Molloy made inappropriate comments to her pre-K people of peculiar needs students specified arsenic “let’s enactment a restraint overgarment connected him!” and “you’re going to beryllium the crushed I die!”
The district, Barra and Blume were alert of allegations of maltreatment against Molloy, but they failed to study her to instrumentality enforcement until aboriginal March 2026 erstwhile Blume notified constabulary of Molloy’s suspected abuse, according to the complaint.
Teacher assistants told investigators with the Clark County School District Police Department that Molloy routinely abused P.W. and different disabled students by “flicking, grabbing, pulling, slapping, squeezing, and jerking students by their hands and arms, physically forcing students bodies down into chairs portion screaming successful their face, flicking students successful the caput and screaming inappropriate things astatine students to marque them cry,” according to the lawsuit.
Molloy’s alleged maltreatment to P.W. caused the lad to enactment aggressively toward peers, defy going to schoolhouse and outcry erstwhile Molloy would bring him to her classroom, the ailment alleges.
Nevada Department of Education records amusement the territory employed Molloy successful 2016, Barra successful 2013 and Blume successful 2004.
Contact Spencer Levering astatine slevering@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0253.
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