Bell v. Board of Education

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Kings County (Randolph Jackson, J.), entered on or about October 17,1994, which, after a jury trial, awarded plaintiff $2,250,000, reversed, on the law, without costs, and the complaint dismissed.

This action for damages arises from the rape of plaintiff Scupella Bell, then a twelve-year-old schoolgirl, by acquaintances John Gibson and Chivelle Stallworth on June 3, 1988. On that day, plaintiff and her class were conducting school activities at a park located several blocks from her school. Plaintiff left the park at noon to lunch at a nearby pizza shop. Plaintiffs…