Bedford vice-principal stabbed by student files lawsuit against security guard – Halifax [Video]

A vice-principal stabbed by a 15-year-old student inside a Halifax high school is suing a school security guard, claiming the guard failed to follow proper search and de-escalation procedures before the attack.

In a statement of claim filed April 28, vice-principal Wayne Rodgers alleges that on March 20, 2023, Ryan Cosgrove failed to complete a search of the student and his belongings after the security guard pulled a weapon from the student’s school bag.

At the time, all three people were in Rodgers’s office at Charles P. Allen High School in suburban Bedford.

According to an agreed statement of facts presented last year to a Nova Scotia youth court judge, Cosgrove left the office with a butterfly knife and called police, leaving Rodgers alone with the student in an office that was locked from the outside.

Moments later, the student pulled a folding knife from his school bag and stabbed …