A lawsuit filed Wednesday by several parents whose young children attended a now-closed Santa Clara school and daycare for preschool and kindergartners alleges a pattern of abuse on the part of the private facility’s principle educator.
In the 24-page complaint, filed in the Fifth Judicial District Court in Washington County, plaintiffs allege that Analee Nellie Talbot, who ran Desert Edge Montessori, often hit and yelled at their children, to the point where several expressed severe anxiety about attending school and began soiling themselves, despite being toilet trained.
Talbot was charged in May with a class A misdemeanor count of child abuse involving physical injury in connection with one of the child’s claims.