Lawsuit claims Lakeview teachers strip-searched, interrogated 10-year-old Muslim student

October 25, 2019   

(WFMJ) A Cortland couple is suing the Lakeview School District, claiming a teacher, a student teacher, and a school nurse subjected their ten-year-old son to a strip search and interrogation about his religion and his loyalty to the United States.

Nail Majid and Amany Ahmad … have filed a complaint in U.S. District Court against the Lakeview Local School District, the school board, nurse Nancy Sandrella, teacher Kara Kasula, and Alex Dean.

The lawsuit points out that the student, who is now 11 years old, has darker skin and hair, is of Palestinian heritage, and is Muslim.

According to the lawsuit, Dean was a student teacher in Kasula’s classroom at Lakeview Elementary School on November 2, 2018, when she “for no apparent reason, began repeatedly and sternly” asking the ten-year-old why he looked sad.

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