Nonverbal child left lying on school floor for 2 hours after shattering his femur, family says

MISSOURI CITY, Texas (KTRK) – A nonverbal child with autism in Texas was left lying on the floor for hours, crying in pain after a slip and fall at school.

The 11-year-old boy named Kyle was eventually taken to a hospital where he underwent surgery for a shattered femur.

Now, his parents are demanding answers from the school district.

Hermann Bensurto, Kyle’s father, is relieved to see his son is feeling better after the traumatic event three weeks ago.

Bensurto said his son was lying on the floor in a school classroom, crying in pain for two hours before he was given help.

The situation was even captured on video, showing Kyle crying out in pain while he lay on the floor, surrounded by two school employees.

“It was like an animal struggling on the road, and people just surrounding it waiting for him to die, that’s how I describe it. I’m sorry, but it looks like that way,” Bensurto said.

On Nov. 5, the family got the call from Quail Valley Middle School that Kyle, who is described as nonverbal with severe autism, wouldn’t get up off the floor.

Kyle’s mom drove to the school, where she found her son still lying on the floor. She then called her husband.

“I heard in the background the nurse was asking, ‘Do we need to call an ambulance?’ And I was like, what? They don’t know? My son has already been lying there for … two hours. So, I told them, ‘Yes!’” Bensurto said.

Kyle was finally taken to the hospital and admitted. Doctors discovered he shattered his femur, which required surgery to insert a metal plate and eight pins in his left thigh.

Bensurto doesn’t understand why his son was left on the floor in screaming pain for so long before getting help.

“You could hear on the phone that he was screaming … how come they don’t know what to do?” he said.

Joe Matthew, the family’s attorney, said he has watched the entire video of Kyle on the floor, which lasted two hours and 15 minutes.

He said the video shows Kyle slip and fall, but the rest was shocking.

“What do they [school employees] do? They just leave him on the ground, they leave him on the ground for two hours while they’re sitting around. They’re talking, they’re laughing, they’re eating lunch, they’re ordering orange chicken,” Matthew said.

In a statement to KTRK, Fort Bend Independent School District said:

“Staff members involved in this incident are no longer employed by the district. We remain committed to creating a safe and secure learning environment for every student.”

For now, Kyle is confined to a wheelchair to get around. He will have to undergo more surgeries on his leg in the future.

His father said it will be hard to trust anyone with caring for his son again.

“The neglect, incompetence of these people… they need to know what’s going on with a kid,” he said.

The family attorney said he doesn’t want this to happen to any other child.

“I don’t know what happened in this case. It’s ridiculous what happened,” Matthew said.

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