Two four-year-olds handcuffed at school for…
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…not being sleepy!
The parents of two Bronx preschoolers are suing the city, charging that their children were removed from class - and handcuffed by a school-safety officer - for not napping during naptime.
Apparently a substitute teacher took the children to an empty classroom on Nov. 17, 2006, and left them there alone. After a short time, the school-safety officer entered the room, cuffed the children’s wrists, and then went on to terrify them by telling they that they would never see their parents again.
One child remembers that a man who was dressed like a police officer walked into the room, sat at a big desk - “like the one the judge is on” - and threatened them.
“He was police,” one of the boys said. “He said, ‘You know what happens when you don’t go to sleep in there? . . . ‘When you go to jail, you’re not going to have no fun, no TV, no toys.’ ”
The families are seeking unspecified damages. The city Department of Education and the NYPD, which oversees school-safety officers, did not return requests for comment.
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