GUILTY MN - Teacher Para On Life Support After Brutal Beating By 18 Yo Student, Minneapolis, May 2018

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Headline story in Minneapolis papers today.

Charges: Teen attacked Minneapolis school staff member in hallway

An 18-year-old student at Harrison Education Center in Minneapolis is now charged with two counts of assault after allegedly attacking and critically injuring a staff member.

Corey David Burfield, 18, is charged with both first degree assault and third degree assault. He faces up to 20 years behind bars and a $30,000 fine.

Family members identified Mohammed Dukuly as the staff member, who remains in critical condition at Hennepin County Medical Center. Relatives told Fox 9 Dukuly is breathing on his own, but is not responding to commands.


Charges: Teen attacked Minneapolis school staff member in hallway

Student Charged in Harrison Assault Released From Jail

Former Principal Calls Mpls. School Where Teacher Was Attacked A ‘Prison’
Former Principal Calls Mpls. School Where Teacher Was Attacked A 'Prison'

http://video.startribune.com/harrison-student-describes-attack-on-teacher-s-assistant/483493931/

Student was RELEASED WITHOUT BAIL to the "care" of his mother. He is allowed to return to school. This same student carried out another assault May 15 at school. Are you kidding me? The judge actually let this 18 yo out of jail, no bond, and is allowing him to go back to school?? Apparently, because the 18 yo has a "diagnosis", he gets to try AGAIN and AGAIN, until presumably he ACTUALLY kills someone at school.

When does a "diagnosis" of EBD ("emotional and behavioral disorder" cross over into garden variety CRIMINAL VIOLENCE? This is abhorrent and outrageous. This teen attacked, unprovoked, a disabled paraprofessional. Until a few hours ago, the family of the victim was publicly talking about withdrawing life support. Any minor with a diagnosis of "EBD" who is this violent should be in residential treatment 24/7/365-- not out in society or in a public or alternative school. This is absolutely insane, keeping these individuals in public schools.

May 24, 2018 04:08 PM

The 18-year-old student charged in connection to an assault on a teaching assistant that occurred at a Minneapolis school Tuesday has been released from jail.

Corey David Burfield has been charged with one count of first-degree assault and one count of third-degree assault.

He appeared in court in Hennepin County Thursday. The judge allowed his release, but he will be required to get a home monitoring device within three days. And he will have to stay at home unless he is working, at school or seeking medical treatments.

Burfield was appointed a public defender and cannot be within a three-block radius of the teaching assistant, who suffered severe injuries as a result of the assault.

The complaint said the officer then watched Burfield punch Dukuly a number of times in the neck and head. According to the complaint, surveillance video shows the student initially trying to grab at Dukuly's belt where he had his school radio and keys.

Dukuly was transported to the hospital after the incident. His condition was upgraded from critical to serious Thursday afternoon. His family said he had been drinking and speaking.

Burfield has no prior adult convictions and is on medication for mental illness. The judge also ordered he see a mental health professional within two weeks.

His next court appearance is scheduled for June 22.
Student Charged in Harrison Assault Released From Jail

*I can't find the quote wrap feature in the new forum-- will keep looking.
 
Headline story in Minneapolis papers today.

Charges: Teen attacked Minneapolis school staff member in hallway

An 18-year-old student at Harrison Education Center in Minneapolis is now charged with two counts of assault after allegedly attacking and critically injuring a staff member.

Corey David Burfield, 18, is charged with both first degree assault and third degree assault. He faces up to 20 years behind bars and a $30,000 fine.

Family members identified Mohammed Dukuly as the staff member, who remains in critical condition at Hennepin County Medical Center. Relatives told Fox 9 Dukuly is breathing on his own, but is not responding to commands.


Charges: Teen attacked Minneapolis school staff member in hallway

Student Charged in Harrison Assault Released From Jail

Former Principal Calls Mpls. School Where Teacher Was Attacked A ‘Prison’
Former Principal Calls Mpls. School Where Teacher Was Attacked A 'Prison'

http://video.startribune.com/harrison-student-describes-attack-on-teacher-s-assistant/483493931/

Student was RELEASED WITHOUT BAIL to the "care" of his mother. He is allowed to return to school. This same student carried out another assault May 15 at school. Are you kidding me? The judge actually let this 18 yo out of jail, no bond, and is allowing him to go back to school?? Apparently, because the 18 yo has a "diagnosis", he gets to try AGAIN and AGAIN, until presumably he ACTUALLY kills someone at school.

When does a "diagnosis" of EBD ("emotional and behavioral disorder" cross over into garden variety CRIMINAL VIOLENCE? This is abhorrent and outrageous. This teen attacked, unprovoked, a disabled paraprofessional. Until a few hours ago, the family of the victim was publicly talking about withdrawing life support. Any minor with a diagnosis of "EBD" who is this violent should be in residential treatment 24/7/365-- not out in society or in a public or alternative school. This is absolutely insane, keeping these individuals in public schools.

May 24, 2018 04:08 PM

The 18-year-old student charged in connection to an assault on a teaching assistant that occurred at a Minneapolis school Tuesday has been released from jail.

Corey David Burfield has been charged with one count of first-degree assault and one count of third-degree assault.

He appeared in court in Hennepin County Thursday. The judge allowed his release, but he will be required to get a home monitoring device within three days. And he will have to stay at home unless he is working, at school or seeking medical treatments.

Burfield was appointed a public defender and cannot be within a three-block radius of the teaching assistant, who suffered severe injuries as a result of the assault.

The complaint said the officer then watched Burfield punch Dukuly a number of times in the neck and head. According to the complaint, surveillance video shows the student initially trying to grab at Dukuly's belt where he had his school radio and keys.

Dukuly was transported to the hospital after the incident. His condition was upgraded from critical to serious Thursday afternoon. His family said he had been drinking and speaking.

Burfield has no prior adult convictions and is on medication for mental illness. The judge also ordered he see a mental health professional within two weeks.

His next court appearance is scheduled for June 22.
Student Charged in Harrison Assault Released From Jail

*I can't find the quote wrap feature in the new forum-- will keep looking.

Parents lobbied Congress to make rules for Special needs students. This is what we got.
 
I have no words. The poor family of the beaten man. Tragic.
 
Parents lobbied Congress to make rules for Special needs students. This is what we got.

I did some googling. This school is a special needs school. From the employment of three "behaviour deans" it looks like it may even be a special school that specialises in emotional and behavioural issues. Presumably this boy (man? he's 18) was in the right environment for his diagnosis. From what I can tell there were recent restructures? Perhaps the upheaval was too much. Perhaps student and staff supervision wasn't what it should have been.

There's an emotional/behavioural school nearby us, and then an even more intensive behaviour school the next suburb over. They're definitely nothing like "prisons", and local teachers really want to work there because there are huge opportunities to make a real difference. They don't have to be a negative place when they're run well.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see how it happened and why.
 
I did some googling. This school is a special needs school. From the employment of three "behaviour deans" it looks like it may even be a special school that specialises in emotional and behavioural issues. Presumably this boy (man? he's 18) was in the right environment for his diagnosis. From what I can tell there were recent restructures? Perhaps the upheaval was too much. Perhaps student and staff supervision wasn't what it should have been.

There's an emotional/behavioural school nearby us, and then an even more intensive behaviour school the next suburb over. They're definitely nothing like "prisons", and local teachers really want to work there because there are huge opportunities to make a real difference. They don't have to be a negative place when they're run well.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see how it happened and why.

The Law defines what special needs students have to have in their IEP’s in order to receive consequences and what the consequences can be. It is not the same as for students without IEP’s. It is quite a process for any consequences for students with behavioral issues.

I agree that the schools are doing wonderful things, but teachers get hurt a lot.

They are trained in special restraint techniques. There are so many kids with intense issues.

I know of a residential one that is for kids with issues that are not that severe. The cleaner is always washing the feces off of the walls in their bedrooms.

The rooms where the kids live are bright and cheery.

The public has no idea of the things these kids have experienced because of privacy. You would weep and your hair would stand on end as well. This is in MN
 
Some information about this students past: Please note the last sentence in the article,
"It is now up to Harrison Education Center to decide if he can return."

Court Documents: Student Accused of Putting Teaching Assistant in the Hospital Has Violent Past

Has Harrison Education Center made a decision about this student returning to school? I'm willing to believe they will tell the family and district he is too violent for them to ensure the safety of their other students and staff and he won't be coming back.
 
Prisoners in MN have recently killed guards.

What do we do with people like this?
 
Corey David Burfield, 19, was also sentenced to five years' probation after he pleaded guilty Thursday to first- and third-degree assault for the May 22, 2018, assault that left Mohammed Dukuly, 45, a paraprofessional at Harrison Education Center, with lasting injuries. Harrison is an alternative high school for teens with severe emotional and behavioral disorders.

Former student who severely beat Minneapolis Schools teaching aide gets year in workhouse
 

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