Several teachers have been suspended amid an investigation that follows after the staff made a boy with Down Syndrome stand wet and naked in the cold outside the special needs school for half an hour.

The incident happened at Stanley School in Pensby, England, where the school’s head, deputy head, and an assistant left 11-year-old Levi Blackshaw standing in the cold for 30 minutes.

In the CCTV footage, the young boy was seen “curled up in a ball and crying like a baby” after the teachers made him stand in the cold and gave him nothing but a towel and a pair of shoes.

The boy ended up in the yard outside the school after he “acted up” and got wet while he was in a classroom. After he took his wet clothes off, the teachers gave him a towel and escorted him outside.

While the teachers were initially allowed to return to their duties, all three of them got suspended 11 months later after a major investigation against their practices was launched.

Speaking of the incident to Liverpool Echo, Mother Suzanne from Birkenhead said:

“When I found out I was just crying. I went into the school and I nearly smashed the classroom up. My partner had to get the social workers and I had to be removed from the building.

“I demanded to see the CCTV footage from the headteacher and it took two weeks, and when we saw it I was crying and even he was crying.

“It was awful. What’s really hard is how can you prove how Levi was affected? He is non-verbal, he is not like us. He came home from school that evening and we didn’t even know. You send them to school to be protected.”

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