Trial on for lawsuit against Chicago Public Schools on behalf of boy beaten with belts
CHICAGO -- In U.S. District Court the civil case of Chicago Public Schools student who was beaten with belts at school has gone to trial before a jury.Jomaury Champ's family sued the Chicago Public Schools for what happened to the fourth grader after officials let an unauthorized person into the school. The suit claims his teacher at the time gave the person two leather belts, which were used to beat him inside the school because he had misbehaved in class.
'I was screaming and crying, and I was saying that I wanted my mama,' Jomaury told CBS News Chicago back when he was 9, 'and then she whacked me some more times, and she told me she was my mama.'Jomaury is now 15, and a federal jury has listened to him tell his story. Police responded to Jomaury's home later that night, when his parents called them to report the beating.
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