NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - A K-12 school in New York should have realized start-to-finish graduates would want to take a picture on monkey bars that collapsed, a new lawsuit says.
Chanelle Moise sued The Chapin School on March 2 in New York County Supreme Court over injuries she sustained celebrating her graduation at Carl Schurz Park.
Chapin has an agreement with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation to use the park, which students did on March 11, 2019. Moise's class was taking graduating pictures there that afternoon, the suit says.
Moise is part of a group called "Sole Survivors" - students who started Chapin as kindergartners and graduated from there. The group decided to take pictures on the monkey bars, as past classes have done.
"Defendant had a duty to its students... to control how many students were atop the monkey bar apparatus..." the lawsuit says.
"Ms. Moise stood underneath the monkey bar apparatus at Carl Schurz Park when the upper run and/or cross bar separated from the sides, collapsed and crashed onto her body during sole survivors."
Moise blames a lack of supervision from Chapin for her injuries. She says she suffered severe injuries to her neck and back.