The jury awarded $26 million in damages to a former Pasadena Unified School District special education student who was sexually assaulted by three classmates.
Moises Murillo died in 2017 after he fell out of a chair and severed his spinal cord. He was taken out of an adaptive stroller he was supposed to be in.
The parents of an 8-year-old special-needs child who died in 2017 less than a week after falling out of his chair in class said Wednesday they settled their negligence/wrongful death suit against the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District for $18 million.
Moises Murillo was left unsupervised on May 31, 2017 at Sunset Elementary School in a strapped chair before falling backwards, striking his head on the floor and fracturing his neck.