KANSAS
KSHB
[with video]
Brendaliss Gonzalez
6:45 PM, May 18, 2015
SHAWNEE, Kan. – A Kansas woman is suing the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas, alleging administrators falsely accused her of child abuse.
The woman’s attorney filed the lawsuit against the Diocese, Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Shawnee and the principal for the church’s school last week.
According to the lawsuit, Melissa Schroeder claims she first notified her daughter’s teacher of bullying against her daughter in April 2014.
She also notified the Sacred Heart School’s principal later that month.
However, she alleges nearly a month later, nothing was done, even after she provided notes from her daughter’s doctor stating the girl was suffering from severe migraines possible caused by “some of the bullying at school.”
According to the lawsuit, the principal told Schroeder that “perhaps this school is not for you.”
Schroeder alleges she later found out the principal filed a complaint against her to the Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) alleging that she “was abusing and neglecting her ten-year-old daughter.”
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