Ledelldra Brooks says she found her 7-year-old daughter wearing a dirty diaper inside the pen made from a toddler gate and a crib gate attached to bookshelves

Brooks had showed up unannounced at the girl's 1st grade classroom at Viking Elementary School in Fresno in May

Has filed a legal claim as precursor to potential lawsuit

| Updated: 19:27 EST, 9 November 2014

The mother of a developmentally disabled girl has filed a legal claim against her daughter's former special education teacher for allegedly putting the child in a gated enclosure that the mother said amounted to a cage.

Ledelldra Brooks told The Fresno Bee she found her 7-year-old daughter wearing a dirty diaper inside the pen made from a toddler gate and a crib gate attached to bookshelves when she showed up unannounced at the girl's first grade classroom at Viking Elementary School in Fresno in May.

Brooks called the police, who dismantled the unit and referred the results of their investigation to the district attorney as a possible case of misdemeanor child abuse.

'I honestly want the public to know what's going on behind special education, what went on in my daughter's class,' she told The Bee.

Teacher's aides told police the girl was one of seven students in the class and that children were put in the gated enclosure when they were out of control or posed a risk to themselves or their classmates, according to records obtained by Brooks' lawyer and reviewed by the newspaper.

They said Brooks' daughter ended up there the day her mother saw her for being disruptive and scratching an aide.

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