A 2016 personal injury case has led to an eight figure legal judgement against Deion Sanders family including his son, Shilo, after an assault at the successor to Prime Prep Academy, Focus Learning Academy.
In September 2015, Darjean then an employee with Focus Learning Academy, was violently attacked by Shilo Sanders – son of Deion and Pilar Sanders.
The attack casued by the younger Sanders hospitalized Darjean for multiple days in the hospital and required siognificant medical care including spinal surgery.
The outburst by Shilo Sanders cost medical providers more than $115,000 in medical care at the time and per court documents made Darjean unable to maintain gainful employment due to permanent neurological injuries and damage to his cervical spine.
Deion Sanders had publically denied the allegations and accused Darjean of being a liar.
Darjean is a former New York Yankees prospect who ran free baseball programs for Dallas area children. He also assisted one of his students in, a Townview alumni, with starting a nonprofit to bring baseball for children with cancer.
Darjean’s suit blames Sanders and his ex-wife Pilar of failing to supervise their child and failing to raise him to not act like a savage in public.
The full judgement can be found here:
Deion Sanders Prime Prep Academy
Prime Prep Academy was founded in 2012 in part by the former NFL cornerback. When it was established it had 1100 students in Oak Cliff and Ft. Worth, but things would quickly go sideways.
By January 2015, the school was closed due to financial insolvency and it and its nonprofit sponsor Uplift Ft Worth are still subject to pending court action over National School Lunch Program.
The school was closed with less than an hours’ notice and employees were shocked to find out their health insurance and retirement premiums were not being paid. A lawsuit by six employees helped recover some of their back wages that weren’t paid.
Focus Learning Academy took a majority of the students from Prime Prep Academy, but would later be closed after violating the Texas Education Agency “Three Strikes” provisions for charter schools.
The elder Sanders is currently Head Coach at Jackson State in the Southwestern Athletic Conference.
