Principal Accused of Choking Teen
The principal of a high school for students with disciplinary problems has been accused in a lawsuit of choking a 15-year-old boy.
The suit charges that Martin Young, while principal of Yale High School in 1991, “began to strike, grab and choke” Jerome Barnes, who was “falsely accused of placing a thumbtack on the chair of his instructor.”
Young, who resigned his position earlier this year, denied the charges.
Barnes “took no action to either provoke or warrant such an attack,” according to the suit, which also charges that the fact Barnes is an African-American was a “motivating force” in the incident.
The Orange County Department of Education is also named in the suit, because Young and others “acted under color of their authority.”
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