Ex-Indiana Teacher Accused of Creating 'Fight Club' for Students to Beat Up Classmate, 7, with Disabilities

A former Indiana schoolteacher has been accused of inciting and urging his 2nd-grade students to attack a classmate with disabilities, according to a lawsuit obtained by PEOPLE. Julious Johnican, of the George Washington Carver School No. 87 in Indianapolis, Ind., is among several school staff members named in the suit filed Tuesday by the boy’s mother. The lawsuit alleges that during the 2023-24 school year, Johnican allegedly engineered several attacks when the boy was "thrown to the ground, struck, slapped, and hit in the head repeatedly," including two occasions when...