Hell we should be able to sue these craven mindless profiteers for forcing us to live in this horrible world. He says that its "living in a world that's safe". How about taking some responsibility for the wacked out world that you are creating with your actions. I really hope the judge throws this one out.
Newtown Lawsuit: Lawyer For School Shooting Survivor Says $100 Million Claim Is About Security
By BRIDGET MURPHY
12/29/12 02:05 PM ET EST
NEWTOWN, CT - DECEMBER 24: A couple stand in silence a
memorial for those killed in the school shooting at Sandy Hook
Elementary School, on December 24, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut.
Donations and letters are pouring in from across the country as the town
tries to recover from the massacre. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty
Images)
"It's about living in a world that's safe," New Haven attorney Irving Pinsky told The Associated Press on Saturday. "The answer is about protecting the kids."
Pinsky asked this week to sue the state, which has immunity against most lawsuits unless it gives a party permission to go forward with a claim. Connecticut's claims commissioner couldn't be reached for comment Saturday.
Pinksy's client, whom he calls "Jill Doe" in the claim, sustained "emotional and psychological trauma and injury" on Dec. 14 after gunman Adam Lanza forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and gunned down 20 children and six adults inside in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
The child heard "conversations, gunfire and screaming" over Sandy Hook's intercom after someone in the office apparently switched on the system, according to the claim. Pinsky said Saturday he didn't know whether his client saw anyone die.
The state Board of Education, Department of Education and state education commissioner failed to protect the child "from foreseeable harm," including by failing to provide a safe school setting, the filing said.
It also said the parties failed to review and carefully scrutinize annual strategic school profile reports from the local school district and Sandy Hook Elementary as well as "other submissions with respect to student safety and emergency response planning and protocol."
It says the parties also failed to require the school and local Board of Education to formulate and implement an effective student safety emergency response plan.
Pinsky said Saturday he didn't want to reveal more about the 6-year-old or details about her experience during the shooting because of privacy concerns.