Special Ed Teacher Forced Students to Masturbate in Class

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A lawsuit alleges that a special education teacher with Long Beach Public Schools, used zip ties, violence, and public humiliation to control her class of severely disabled, non-verbal children. And according to the suit, the school administration knew all about it.

A special education teacher in New York used zip ties to restrain students' wrists and ankles, sprayed them with Lysol, and encouraged a male student to masturbate in front of his classmates, according to five of the students' parents, and outlined in court papers filed earlier this week.

The students range in age from 14 to 18 and are all severely autistic, according to Gerard Misk, the attorney representing their families; some have Downs syndrome as well. None of them are able to speak.

"It's very difficult to estimate how this has affected them at the moment," Misk tells Broadly.

The teacher at the center of this case is Lisa Weitzman, a special education teacher with the Long Beach Public Schools. The charges—eight in all—are each more horrific than the last, among them "that teacher Weitzman dug the heels of her stiletto shoes into the feet of a student in an effort to make him be quiet... slammed a student against a wall... performed a 'lap dance' upon a student... [and] duct taped gloves on the hands of a student so that he would stop playing with his feces."

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