A Federal Way parent is considering legal action after her child was injured in an incident at Twin Lakes Elementary School.

On Dec. 7, Morgan Bray’s 4-year-old daughter Kaylena was playing on a trampoline in a classroom when she fell and cut her face on an exposed spring. Bray said that in a meeting with the principal the next day, he stated that the trampoline was broken and shouldn’t have been used.

Kaylena is autistic and nonverbal, and cannot express what happened in her own words, her mother said. Bray also shared concerns about the lack of first aid administered to Kaylena by the nurse for an injury that required a trip to urgent care and five stitches.

In a statement from Federal Way Public Schools regarding the incident, district spokesperson Whitney Chiang told The Mirror they cannot comment on an individual child due to privacy issues: “When we are made aware of situations that could potentially impact student safety, we immediately investigate and implement any changes required to support the continued safety of students.”

In the same email, Chiang shared that “the trampoline in question has been removed from the classroom and is not currently accessible to students.”

The incident

Morgan Bray heard her daughter screaming when she came to pick her up from her pre-K classroom. “I thought she might be having a hard day and having a meltdown, but the scream sounded awful,” Bray said. What she didn’t expect was to see her child’s face covered in blood when she walked in the classroom to pick her up.

“She had blood all in her hair going down her face on her sweatshirt,” Bray said.

Bray learned that her child had been jumping on a trampoline with visibly exposed springs and tears in the cover. Her daughter often jumps on a trampoline at home, but this one was in disrepair.

A nurse had seen Kaylena, but did not administer any first aid, an alcohol swab or a bandage, Bray said.

Bray told The Mirror that she asked the nurse if she had already looked at her daughter, and the nurse suggested taking Kaylena to urgent care, Bray said.

“That was literally it. It’s like nothing was done. She was not cleaned up. Nothing,” Bray said. “It’s like they had no empathy for what happened.”

Bray said she is currently looking for a new school.

Bray also said she has contacted a few different law firms.

“They all have a case due to the school’s negligence because they admitted that they knew that the trampoline should have been thrown out. It wasn’t even after the initial incident the same the next day, it was still in the classroom. It might not have been out, but it was in the classroom,” Bray said.

In addition to the use of the faulty equipment and the lack of first aid administration, Bray said she is also frustrated that the school has not reached out to her to check in since that meeting on Dec. 8. Kaylena hasn’t attended school since then, Bray said: “The cherry on top for me was the school not even reaching out to see how she is, where she is, you know, that’s concerning in itself.”

“My daughter is gonna have to live the rest of her life with a scar on her face,” Bray said to The Mirror. “Hopefully, it heals nicely, but at this point in time, she has a black eye from it because it was so close to her eye.”