Theater employees called police after the 15-year-old, who is unable to use a public bathroom on his own, went into a women's bathroom, the suit alleges.
Gallinaro’s son, who is 15 years old, is nonverbal and has autism. He loves watching most movies until the end, often insisting they stay in the theater until the final credits are rolling, his mother said.
“My son is not equipped to go into a men’s bathroom in a public setting alone,” Gallinaro told NJ Advance Media last week. “I took him to the women’s bathroom.”“Right away, they see he’s with me. They pick up why he’s in the bathroom with me,” she said, noting that she noticed one woman “looking at me smiling.”The manager angrily approached and “shouted blatantly discriminatory remarks” toward the mother and the 15-year-old, the lawsuit alleges.
The manager headed to another part of the theater and the Gallinaros had no further interactions with her, according to the suit.“I don’t agree with what she did,” the assistant manager says on the video, referring to the manager’s actions. “But you’re causing a disturbance, so leave.” The discrimination lawsuit names the Hazlet theater, along with Cinemark USA, the manager, the assistant manager and others associated with the business.
“Ms. Gallinaro’s 15-year-old son, who is diagnosed with autism and severe speech delays, was traumatized by blatantly discriminatory conduct on the part of defendants … simply because he needed to use the bathroom while seeing a movie with his mother,” McOmber said in a statement. The lawsuit alleges violations of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, disparate treatment, a hostile environment due to disability, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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