INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — School officials and Child Protective Services are investigating an incident in which the shoes of an 8-year-old Indianapolis girl with Down syndrome were duct-taped to her ankles.
The Wayne Township School Corporation has opened an internal investigation into the incident Monday and notified the Indiana Department of Child Services.
WRTV-TV reports parents Nate and Elizabeth Searcy will meet today with DCS investigators over the treatment of their daughter, Shaylyn.
Elizabeth Searcy told The Indianapolis Star that Shaylyn complained the taping hurt her feet and she couldn’t walk with it on. Searcy said it took Westlake Elementary School officials 30 minutes to remove the tape when she took her daughter back to the school.
Searcy said school officials have told her previously her daughter sometimes refuses to put her shoes on.
