The State - News from Oct. 28, 1987
School officials in San Francisco said they are looking into allegations from a woman who claims that her retarded son was beaten with wooden rods and gagged with tape at a school for the handicapped. The mother, Betty Simmerman, made the charges as she filed a $5-million Superior Court lawsuit against the San Francisco school district. Simmerman contends that her son, Robert Clausing, 21, was beaten daily by his teacher during a three-month period in the fall of 1986.
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