The mother of a child who died as a result of getting hit by a car just outside his Washington, D.C., school is suing the school for $50 million.
Kaidyn Green, 9, had been summoned by the office at Kipp DC Honor Academy on Dec. 10 for an early release by his mother, who claimed through her lawyer in a press conference Friday that she had previously picked him up this way several times. Instead of accompanying the child to the front office, where his mother Tiffani Green was waiting, he was left unaccompanied and walked out of the school by himself. He then tried to cross the road but was hit by a car.
Kaidyn died on Jun. 2, with Green filing the lawsuit against Kipp DC, LGC Security LLC, the driver William Maurice Ward, and the owner of the vehicle Patrice Dixon on Jun. 6.
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“For whatever reason, the security and/or the school did not follow the normal protocol to get the child to the front desk,” Green’s attorney Keith Watters said during the conference, calling it “gross negligence.”
Green wore sunglasses while her attorney spoke and was seated in between her two sisters at the conference. She was first to the scene of the accident, having heard the collision from the front office. Kaidyn was her only son.
“That Wheeler Road is so dangerous, it’s been under investigation, there’s been recommendations, the city’s been studying it for years — what to do about the traffic situation there,” Watters said.
Green’s son was paralyzed from the neck down and hospitalized for nearly six months. On the day he was released, the family held a party to celebrate, even though Kaidyn required medical supervision 20 hours a day by a nursing agency. That night, his assigned nurse left, and Kaidyn died from asphyxiation after his tracheostomy tube fell out. Green discovered her son deceased the next morning.
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“I would imagine, at some point, this other nursing home will be brought into the case by one side or the other,” Watters said, citing another lawsuit against the same agency from some years earlier. “But from a strategic point of view, we’re just proceeding this way at this time.”
Kipp DC teaches 329 students between fourth and eighth grade at its Wheeler campus. Its entire system includes 18 schools and 7,000 students in total.
