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An Interative Science Bulletin Board set designed to teach K-2 Students the basics about how the position and movement of objects can be changed by […] A+ Rating on BBB on October 25, 2013 at 8:30 PM, updated She was upbeat and adorable like she was always that morning.'' -- Schneckenburger Elementary Principal Diane Lonadier. Around lunchtime on May 3, 2010, her special education instructors at Walter Schneckenburger Elementary School in Kenner strapped 5-year-old Elizabeth Ward into a chair for a nap. The other six children in the class rested on mats on the floor, supervised by a substitute teacher and one aide. A second aide left for lunch.Within 20 minutes, Elizabeth was unconscious. Soon, she was dead.Now the question of who - if anyone - was liable for Elizabeth's death is playing out in a Gretna courtroom, where the girl's parents are suing the Jefferson Parish public school system, Schneckenburger Elementary, the school's principal and Kelly Services, the temporary staffing company that supplied the teacher in her class.
A jury empaneled by Judge Stephen Grefer at the 24th Judicial District Court listened to testimony all week. The trial resumes Tuesday.Elizabeth's parents, Robert and Peggy Ward, blame the defendants. They seek compensation for medical, hospital, funeral and counseling expenses, as well as pain and suffering.The defendants deny liability, suggesting her medical issues were to blame. Elizabeth suffered from periventricular leukomalacia, a type of brain injury affecting infants, and endured occasional seizures. But the defense contends her death was caused by a heart condition, arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia. While Elizabeth could walk and sit up, she spoke few words, save, "I love you'' and "mama,'' said witnesses, referring to their examination of medical records.On the day of her death, Elizabeth went to school as usual and participated in her daily routine, according to testimony. "She was upbeat and adorable like she was always that morning,'' Principal Diane Lonadier testified.
She was one of seven mild to moderately disabled students in her class that day. The Kelly Services substitute teacher was Kimberly Trecek, the aides were Heather West and Elizabeth Layne.After recess, Elizabeth was placed in a Rifton chair, specialized equipment for special needs students.A Velcro belt was strapped across her waist. Layne and a colleague left campus for a Popeye's run, according to West's deposition. Around 1:23 p.m., about 15 to 20 minutes after Elizabeth was put in the chair, West found the girl slumped in the chair. She alerted Trecek and Layne, who had returned, and she placed Elizabeth on the floor and began administering CPR. Kenner firefighters and police, and paramedics from East Jefferson General Hospital, arrived. Attempts to revive her were unsuccessful, however, and she was taken to the emergency room at Ochsner Medical Center in Kenner, where she was pronounced dead.An autopsy concluded that she died of asphyxia, or suffocation. But a defense witness, Dr. Steven Nelson, a pediatric neurologist, said medical records and the nature of her death suggest she died suddenly.
If the child asphyxiated, "I'd expect her to be making a ruckus,'' and that she would have caught the teacher's attention or awakened other children. In addition, Elizabeth had no signs of bruises or abrasions on her abdomen from the restraints to suggest she was agitated or fighting for air.In a voice wracked with grief and anger, Peggy Ward testified Friday that she did not learn the true circumstances of her daughter's death until she started asking questions."I had to find out and make the call. What happened to our daughter, no one told me until I made the call for my daughter," she said. "Nobody told me what happened to our daughter until I discovered it. As her mom, I did the legwork to find out what happened to her.''The Wards' attorneys, Patricia LeBlanc and Deborah Villio, contend that the defendants failed to train staff properly in the Rifton chair's use and that Elizabeth was not adequately monitored. In a deposition, physical therapist Heather Prat said the chair shouldn't be used for naptime.
Experts who testified for the Wards said they think the classroom lacked appropriate supervision and that the pupil-teacher ratio violated state law. A teacher and two aides were required for six students."These children need a great deal of assistance. They cannot survive without it,'' testified William Bainbridge of St. Augustine, Fla., a forensic education analyst who specializes in school-related accidents safety.Lonadier, the principal, and Annette Scully, the school system's early childhood director, said the pupil-teacher ratio met requirements. They said a third aide was not mandated until a class reached 10 pupils. Teachers work out their break time, and that it was not a common practice to leave school for lunch, Lonadier said. "That was their prerogative to do that as long as they were only gone during the time their children were supervised by somebody else,'' she testified.Scully said the chair is an appropriate tool that supports children who need it, and that there is no policy barring its use at naptime.
Lonadier, who said she herself has lost a child, said the Schneckenburger staff was "distraught'' after Elizabeth's death. She said the pain of her own child's death kept her from attending Elizabeth's funeral.The defendants are represented by David Bienvenu, Robert Kerrigan, Glen Price and three other attorneys.The Wards, supported by relatives during the trial, held tight to a prayer card bearing the little girl's picture and her favorite toy, Elmo."Elizabeth was the most loving, fun, sweetest child ... anybody could ever meet in the world,'' Peggy Ward testified Friday. "She would go up to strangers (who) scared me and would put her hands up for them to hold her -- anybody on the street. She never met a stranger all she wanted was a hug, that's all Elizabeth wanted was to be loved.'' Correction: The Rifton chair used in the classroom at Schneckenburger Elementary School in Kenner where Elizabeth Ward, 5, died in 2010 was an older model and has since been discontinued, according to its manufacturer.