Published Online: July 26, 2011
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Los Angeles
A jury awarded $1 million in damages Monday to a now-14-year-old boy who participated in a drug sting at the request of three former administrators at his Los Angeles Unified middle school.
A Superior Court jury deliberated for a day before finding the administrators liable for negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress, the boy's attorney Alexander Calfo said. The $1,015,250 damage award will be put into a trust fund to help pay for the boy's private education, Calfo said.
A woman who answered the phone at the school district's office of communications after business hours had no immediate comment.
The boy claimed in a lawsuit that he was 12 when staff at Porter Middle School gave him cash and asked him to buy drugs from a 14-year-old who was suspected of selling marijuana on campus. The lawsuit claimed the plan was not sanctioned by school police and that asking a minor to buy drugs is against the law.
Calfo said the boy was ostracized after the Feb. 18, 2009, sting and had to move to three other schools to avoid being harassed.
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