MUSLIM FAMILY BLAMES SCHOOL FOR THEIR DAUGHTER'S ABDUCTION,FILES A LAWSUIT AGAINST PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL

The family of a kindergartener abducted from her Philadelphia classroom and found shivering and partially clothed at a playground the next day accused the school district of "reckless indifference" in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.

A worker at an after-school program the girl attended is charged with kidnapping her last year, then blindfolding and sexually assaulting her at a house. The girl was then abandoned outside on the cold January night and found by a sanitation worker who heard her cries at 4 a.m.

"This child is entitled to compensation, but the goals are larger and the objectives far broader," family lawyer Thomas R. Kline said of the lawsuit, which he hopes will address school practices on releasing children to adults.

"They handed over a child to a stranger, without doing any kind of checking," he said. "My intuition tells me this is not the first time that this kind of incident would have occurred."

A grand jury investigation led to a string of charges against Christina Regusters, now 20, but Kline believes at least one or two others were involved.

"We believe that she was sexually assaulted by more than one person ... (and) that there was a male involved, as well as Ms. Regusters," Kline said.

The girl suffered serious injuries that have left her disfigured, according to the lawsuit, which charges that the school violated her civil rights to remain free from bodily harm. The girl is now 7, and continues to attend public school in Philadelphia.

Regusters, posing as the girl's mother in a Muslim garment and veil, got past a security guard and stopped at the school office at Bryant Elementary School in West Philadelphia. She then went to the girl's classroom, where she told a substitute teacher that she was taking the girl out for breakfast, authorities have said.

School security video shows the pair leaving school at 8:50 a.m. The girl was not reported missing until 3 p.m., when she was absent for the off-site program where Regusters worked.

THIS FAMILY SHOULD BLAME ISLAM AND THEIR NEED TO FOLLOW SHARIA BECAUSE IF SCHOOL SECURITY GUARD WERE TO ASK MOTHER TO SHOW HER FACE THEY WOULD HAVE CRIED ISLAMOPHOBIA AND FILED A LAWSUIT.


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