August 11, 2011
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Georgia - The family of a special-needs student who died in the spring plans to sue the Fulton County schools.
Ronald Hatcher says his son Aaron, who was 18, suffered from muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy and couldn't talk or move on his own.
A specialized wheelchair and brace were required to keep him in a position where he could breathe, Hatcher said.
But he says a nurse assigned to Aaron at Roswell High School contacted him one day about a neck brace allegedly placed on the student by his teacher.
"She told us 'this is going on, and this is going on' and I was like, 'Can you do something about it?' and she said, 'They won't let me.'"
When he went to the school, Hatcher says he found Aaron wearing a sort of home-made brace that was not approved by either him or doctors, because of the the student's sensitive breathing situation.
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