Parents sue after fourth-grader handcuffed at Oviedo elementary school

Parents of a 9-year-old child with special needs filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Oviedo after body camera showed school resource office...

October 7, 2023
11:38 AM

Parents of a 9-year-old child with special needs filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Oviedo after body camera showed school resource officers at Stenstrom Elementary School handcuffing and threatening to take him to jail over a tantrum earlier this year. According to an affidavit released Friday, Oviedo Police Department SRO Yahira Moncada on Feb. 2 called for backup after the fourth-grader began throwing items at school staff and the officer while sitting on the floor, 'to see if a male presence would calm him down.

Cristóbal Reyes