A mother is suing the Clark County School District, claiming it failed to tell her about the physical, verbal and emotional abuse her 4-year-old son with autism faced from his special education teacher.

Pamela Ross, represented by Phoong Law, filed a lawsuit in District Court on Thursday against the school district, former Thompson Elementary School special education teacher Melissa Olszewski and then-Thompson Elementary principal Shawn Halland. Ross filed the complaint on behalf of her now 10-year-old functionally nonverbal son with autism, identified in court documents as C.T., who was a special education student at Thompson Elementary in the northwest valley.

A similar case against the district, Olszewski and Halland resulted in a $2 million settlement agreement approved by Clark Coun

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