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THE SCHOOL DISTRICT’S OWN SUBMISSIONS RAISED QUESTIONS OF FACT ABOUT NEGLIGENT HIRING AND RETENTION OF A TEACHER’S AIDE AND NEGLIGENT SUPERVISION OF PLAINTIFF STUDENT IN THIS CHILD VICTIMS ACT CASE (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the defendant school district’s own submissions raised questions of fact in this Child Victims Act case alleging sexual abuse of plaintiff student by a teacher’s aide:

… [T]he defendants failed to establish, prima facie, that the school district was entitled to judgment as a matter of law dismissing the causes of action alleging negligence and negligent supervision and retention insofar as asserted against … . In support of their motion, the defendants submitted, among other things, transcripts of the deposition testimony of the plaintiff and that of his third grade teacher, who served as the direct supervisor of the teacher’s aide. The plaintiff testified that the teacher’s aide singled him out for attention in the classroom and hugged him in the hallways … . While such conduct, without more, might not have been enough to warrant denial of the defendants’ motion, the plaintiff also testified that, upon dismissal from school, the teacher’s aide frequently walked him to her car in the presence of other staff members and then drove him to her home, where the alleged sexual abuse primarily occurred. The third grade teacher also testified that it was “[in]appropriate” for teachers and other school district employees to drive students in their personal vehicles or take students to their homes, conduct which the teacher also believed violated school policies … .

Therefore, the defendants’ own submissions failed to eliminate triable issues of fact as to whether the school district “had notice of the potential for harm to the . . . plaintiff such that its alleged negligence in supervising and retaining [the teacher’s aide] placed [her] in a position to cause foreseeable harm” … . Kastel v Patchogue-Medford Union Free Sch. Dist., 2025 NY Slip Op 00210, Second Dept 1-15-25

Practice Point: The criteria for a school district’s liability for negligent hiring and retention and negligent supervision in a Child Victims Act case concisely laid out.

 

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