Wojcik v. Town of North Smithfield

In the district court, John and Diane Wo-jcik filed a 32-count complaint including claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and under state law for an array of offenses including kidnapping. The defendants included the Town of North Smithfield, the Rhode Island Rape Crisis Center, Inc. (“Crisis Center”) and a number of school officials, teachers and others. All of these claims derived from two reports of possible child abuse, one initiated by a teacher and the other by a Crisis Center employee teaching a special class in school. The facts are set out at some length in Chief Judge Lagueux’s thorough…