A Spokane Valley mother whose daughter cut her forehead has filed a lawsuit against the East Valley School District and the YMCA of the Inland Northwest.

In the suit, Vicki Behar claims both organizations were negligent in allowing the injury to her daughter, which occured in February 1995.

The student, then a first-grader, was attending the YMCA’s after-school program at East Farms Elemtary. During the program, she fell against a filing cabinet “which stuck out quite a ways from the wall” in a crowded hallway. The resulting cut, about 2 inches long, required “reconstructive surgery,” the suit said.

A plastic surgeon stitched up the laceration, said attorney Tom May.

Further surgery may be required.

Representatives of the YMCA and East Valley School District declined to comment on the suit. , DataTimes