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Stephanie Cooper says she started to notice the bruises on her then 13-year-old son’s body starting in April 2021.

But when she called Access Charter School, she was told her son had caused his own injuries.

It wasn’t until this year that her son admitted that a teacher and a behavioral therapist were allegedly abusing and physically restraining him.