Boy hangs self in cell-like room with cord from teacher

School forced kids into 'seclusion rooms'
Parents file suit after boy hangs self in cell-like room with rope from teacher.

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Mentally disabled, autistic kids injured, traumatized in school seclusion rooms

13-year-old Georgia boy hanged himself in room with cord teacher gave him

Autistic Iowa girl confined in school storage closet where she pulled out her hair

By Ashley Fantz
CNN


MURRAYVILLE, Georgia (CNN) -- A few weeks before 13-year-old Jonathan King killed himself, he told his parents that his teachers had put him in "time-out."


"We thought that meant go sit in the corner and be quiet for a few minutes," Tina King said, tears washing her face as she remembered the child she called "our baby ... a good kid."

But time-out in the boy's north Georgia special education school was spent in something akin to a prison cell -- a concrete room latched from the outside, its tiny window obscured by a piece of paper.

Called a seclusion room, it's where in November 2004, Jonathan hanged himself with a cord a teacher gave him to hold up his pants.


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