A vice-principe stabbed by a 15-year-old student in a Halifax high school pursues a school security officer, saying that the guard had not followed the appropriate research and de-escalation procedures before the attack.
In a statement filed on April 28, Vice-Principe Wayne Rodgers alleged that on March 20, 2023, Ryan Cosgrove failed to excavate from the student and his personal effects after the security goalkeeper fired a weapon from the student’s school bag.
At the time, the three people were in the Rodgers office at Charles P. Allen high school in the suburbs of Bedford.
According to a happy declaration of facts presented last year to a judge of the Youth Court of Nova Scotia, Cosgrove left the office with a butterfly knife and called the police, leaving Rodgers alone with the student in an office locked up from the outside.
A few moments later, the pupil pulled a folding knife from his school bag and stabbed the vice-principe twice when he was trying to escape. The boy fled the office and stabbed an administrative assistant at the rear before leaving the building and was arrested on the school land.
He then pleaded guilty to two counts of serious assault and was sentenced to two years of probation. His identity is protected against publication under the Jold Criminal Justice Act.
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Rodgers was stabbed at the top of the back and the lower chest, which caused an air and blood leak in his chest cavity, according to the trial filed with the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. The trial also alleys that Cosgrove did not recognize that the student became agitated and aggressive. And the document indicates that the security guard’s decision to close the office locked in the office left the vice-principe trapped in the attacker.
Attempts to reach Cosgrove to comment have failed.
The trial also appoints the Regional Center for Education Halifax, alleging that the Education Authority has failed to train Cosgrove properly in research and crisis techniques or de -escalation procedures. In addition, the trial indicates that the education authority is responsible for the damage caused by the security guard, saying that the center was aware of the history of violence in high school.
The authority was negligent for the employment of an ill -trained security agent and not to have hiring or training policies for security agents, according to the trial.
On another front, the trial alleys that the authority of education has not warned Rodgers of the student’s “propensity for violence”.
The Education Authority published a brief statement saying that it could not comment on the allegations because the case, which deals with a private case with an employee on leave, on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Rodgers continues to suffer from pain, discomfort and other limits, as well as unrecognized psychological injuries, the document said.
The allegations in the claim declaration have not yet been tested in court.
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