The Salt Lake School District settled a personal injury lawsuit with a parent who claimed a teacher burned her son’s hand.
The district paid Maria Gutierrez $53,491 in an out-of-court settlement earlier this week.
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Gutierrez, the mother of the child, filed the lawsuit in April 2010 stating her son, who has cerebral palsy and cannot walk or speak, suffered "burn injuries to a significant portion of his left hand," on April of 2010 during a class lesson.
In the complaint Gutierrez said a special education teacher at Meadowlark Elementary School put her son’s hand in a bowl of "extremely hot, scalding water" while teaching students the difference between hot and cold.
Roxana Orellana
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