LOS ANGELES — The El Segundo Unified School District has been ordered by a jury to pay $1 million in damages for failing to stop middle schoolers from bullying a teenage girl for nearly a year.
A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury found last week that the school district's negligence, including in supervising and training its employees, was a factor in causing harm to El Segundo Middle School student Eleri Irons, who was 13 when the bullying started, according to court records.
In a lawsuit filed in April 2019, the school district was accused of failing to supervise and protect the girl, who was "bullied, tormented and verbally assaulted" by three students from November 2017 to June 2018.
