One year after a kindergarten was pushed down at school, the child’s father was able to watch the video that showed the incident.
Now, the family of Grayson Callahan is taking legal action and says they don’t want this to happened to another family.
Grayson’s dad, Stephen Callahan, and the family’s attorney said that it’s been a long and frustrating process getting the video into their hands, but now that they have it they’re using it to get justice.
Back in May of 2024, Stephen Callahan posted a video on TikTok calling out the Bristol Township School District saying his son was attacked and hospitalized by another student due to the negligence of a teacher’s aid.
Callahan said his 5-year-old son Grayson suffered a gash on his forehead and had two teeth knocked out when an older student attacked him inside the cafeteria at Keystone Elementary School in Croydon on Thursday, May 16, 2024.
“He’s homeschooled now. Definitely more reclusive. Doesn’t really enjoy being in big crowds, lots of people,” Callahan said of his child.
The video is now part of a lawsuit filed by the Callahan’s attorney at Injury Law Partners.
“I would have liked the video in my hands quicker. They dragged their feet on it. We had to issue right to know requests and subpoenas,” attorney Bob Devine said.
Devine explained that the defendants were contracted by Bucks County Intermediate Unit.
“In this particular situation, a fourth grade student who had a documented and known behavior issues, aggression issues, was to be supervised and monitored by employees of these two staffing companies and they failed in every which way,” Devine said.
The Bristol Township School District said that BCIU staff are not district employees and while the program uses space at the elementary school, its students are not in the district.
A spokesperson for Gamut, which is one of the defendants, told NBC10 Wednesday afternoon that the company, “is disappointed this matter continues when the family and their counsel know that the PCAs associated with our company were not in the room at the time of the incident because one was assigned elsewhere in the building at the time, and the other was on a break and attending to a personal matter. We understand the family is upset, but we cannot prevent an incident from occurring, if we are neither present when it occurred, nor required to be. The family and their counsel are aware of these facts but continue this litigation against our company for unknown reasons.”
NBC10 has reached out to the other company named in the lawsuit, but we have not yet heard back.