Agency says it's still investigating Kansas school





St. John's has settled nine other abuse lawsuits since 2006.











He then was carried outside and thrown on the ground, where staff and students decided to "play with" him, the suit claims.

"They dragged him by his ankles, shaking them wildly, kicked him in the knees, demanded he stand up on his broken legs and threatened to punch him in his mouth if he did not stop screaming," according to the complaint.

The staff and students then stuffed him into a shopping cart and returned him to his dorm room, where he was dumped on the floor. Different staff and students visited him there to tell him he was weak and others were tougher than him, the suit contends.

The next morning Jesse was found on his urine-covered floor. When he couldn't stand, he was then put in a chair and rolled to the nurse's office, where an ambulance was called, according to the claims. Hospital X-rays showed he had two broken legs. The boy underwent emergency surgery to repair his legs.

He spent a week in the Salina hospital before being flown by medical staff to California, where he spent two more days in a hospital.

St. John's, in its formal response to the suit, denied the accusations about the boy being beaten as well as the allegations that he was told to resume physical training.

The school admitted in its court filing that the nurse treated the boy's leg and that he was transported by shopping cart to his dorm room when he was unable to walk. The school acknowledged hospital test results showed he had fractures to his legs.

The Associated Press