10-Year-Old Died of COVID After Teacher Made Her Be ‘Nurse’ to Sick Kids
Teresa Sperry, a fifth-grader at Hillpoint Elementary School, died last week, just five days after she first began experiencing a headache. The family was notified by health officials that she had tested positive for COVID two days after her death.
The girl’s parents say her teacher willfully exposed her to the virus by tasking her with escorting sick students. Her parents have said they followed all safety measures to protect Teresa from the virus, even driving their kids to school to limit their potential exposure to COVID on the school bus. But Teresa’s teacher routinely had her accompany other sick children to the nurse’s office. That was her classroom job and she said that if the kids were sick and needed to go home, she had to go get their book bag and take it back.
Teresa's mother, wrote on Facebook that Teresa “would have continued to be here if people would have stopped sending their sick kids to school. Her teacher at Hillpoint gave her the job of ‘nurse.’ She was required to walk all sick students in her class to the nurses office.” Both parents were vaccinated against COVID, but Jeff Sperry suffered a breakthrough infection after his daughter’s death.
The couple said they hoped their situation would wake other people up to the fact that the pandemic is still very real, even though some people choose to ignore the threat of COVID.
“If it was over, my daughter would still be here, we wouldn’t be doing these interviews, we wouldn’t be preparing for her funeral. It upsets me so much that people are so nonchalant about it, while my only girl is gone,” Nicole said.
Jeff Sperry said Teresa “was happy, she was healthy and strong, and it took her in less than five days.”
Comments