Law Offices of John Kenneth Pineau, P.C.

Mom of zapped student 'furious'

Byline: Sarah Langbein, Rocky Mountain News

The two dots on his neck, and another set on his arm, have scabbed over and fallen off.

They were all that remained of physical scars left on the 13-year-old boy who says a Horace Mann Middle School employee used a stun gun on him as a form of punishment.

But the boy's mother says the emotional scars linger.

"He's angry. He's always angry," Acencion Rivera said. "He doesn't want to go to school. That's not my son. That's not how he is."

Rivera's son told his mother Jan. 11 about the alleged attack at the hands of Shaun Ellis, 24, an after-school worker, who will appear in court today. As his mother lounged on ...