NEW YORK — Deja Taylor, the mother of a 6-year-old boy who allegedly shot his first grade teacher in January, says she is willing to take responsibility for the incident, and that her son's actions can be linked to his ADHD diagnosis.
"I am, as a parent, obviously willing to take responsibility for him because he can't take responsibility" for himself, she said in an exclusive interview with ABC News.
In interviews and in her lawsuit, Zwerner characterized the boy as violent and said he"slammed the cellphone on the ground so hard that it cracked and shattered." In the lawsuit, she also claimed the child had a"history of random violence" and that he"attacked students and teachers alike." "He threw his arms up. He said, 'Fine.' And when he threw his arms up, he knocked her phone out of her hand on accident," she said.
"If they believed all of these behaviors to be true, then they should not have allowed him" to advance to a higher level, Ellenson said."They should've put him back into kindergarten, possibly even pre-K, but at the minimum to kindergarten." "He was more attentive, he tried to follow along, he tried to do the coursework," Calvin Taylor said."But in all fairness to the other kids in the class, sometimes it was just too much for him."
The boy remains in the legal custody of Calvin Taylor, who said the boy is in school elsewhere and getting therapy. He said he worries, however, about the boy's future living in Newport News.
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