Military School Loses Bid to Bury Alarming Video
A Kansas military school cannot shield a cellphone video that allegedly shows an adult instructor forcing a distraught student to stand on two broken legs, a federal magistrate judge ruled.
The video has come to light in a lawsuit that claims systematic abuse of students at the St. John’s Military School, in Salina, Kan.
Several families claim that their children were physically abused while under the school’s supervision, and that school officials knew about or caused the abuse.
Claiming that someone is providing the press with photographs and videos of St. John’s students, the school asked the court to issue a protective order.
But U.S. Magistrate Judge Kenneth Gale ruled Thursday that the school cannot support alleged concerns for the privacy of the depicted minors because the Associated Press already distributed a story containing the video.