A city investigator found no wrongdoing by any school employees after a 15-year-old special-needs student walked out of her Brooklyn school and disappeared for three days last year, but said that three other students left the building with her.
Nashaly Perez Rodriguez, a girl with mood swings and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, was missing for three days after leaving P.S. 371 in Sunset Park on Sept. 15 before she was found at a friend's house in East New York.
A special investigator was appointed to investigate Perez Rodriguez's disappearance, which was reported nearly a year after the disappearance of Avonte Oquendo, a severely autistic boy who walked out of his Queens school and was found dead along the banks of the East River four months later.
In findings released Wednesday, the investigator said that several school officials tried to stop Perez Rodriguez and the three other students leaving with her but were unable to prevent them from walking out of the building.
"We did not find misconduct on the part of DOE or SSD employees and do not recommend any disciplinary action," the investigator said in its report.
The investigating found that several school employees were alerted after the Perez Rodriguez and the other students walked out of the building.
After the girl left, according to the investigator's report, Perez Rodriguez went to one of the other student's homes in East New York and refused to give that student's parent's her phone number. Then, when the other student left to go to school the next day, Perez Rodriguez told that student's mother she had the flu.
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After the other student's mother saw that Perez Rodriguez had been reported missing during a TV report, she called 911. The girl was reunited with her family.
The family's attorney, David Perecman, has said Perez Rodriguez should have had one-on-one supervision.
