In the wake of recent reports of cage fighting at a Dallas high school, a woman says her nephew was locked in steel cage at a separate high school just three weeks ago.
Sharon Jones said a teacher at H.G. Spruce High School locked her special needs nephew in a steel cage on March 11.
"To me that is wrong, that is wrong," she said.
Her nephew, freshman Robert Cayald, said he was fighting with a classmate when a tech systems teacher forced them into a metal locker that stores old computers.
"It was like jail," he said.
Jones went to the Dallas high school demanding to see the cage for herself.
"That’s when I took my cell phone out and took the pictures," she said.
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Jones' allegation comes less than two weeks after documents from a district investigation showed students fought with bare fists in a cage at South Oak Cliff High School from 2003 to 2005.
Jones said she is frustrated because complaints to the school and the superintendent have fallen on deaf ears so far.
"If this would have happened at my house, CPS would have come and taken him from me, but they can't do that now, because it’s a school," she said.
"We are reviewing the incident," a Dallas Independent School District representative said. "We will take the appropriate action if necessary."
Jones said she is taking her nephew to a psychiatrist and is looking at home-schooling options.
