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Parents of two four-year-old boys in New York are suing officials after their sons were allegedly handcuffed for refusing to take a nap.

Lawyer Scott Agulnick says a substitute teacher took Jaden Diaz and Christopher Brito to an empty classroom.

Then, a school safety officer allegedly entered the room, cuffed the boys' wrists - and told them they would never see their parents again.

Mr Agulnick said the families were seeking damages, adding: "Failure to comply with nap time is hardly an offence that warrants being handcuffed, or threatened, for that matter."

Christopher, now five, told his mother Vasso Brito, 34: "I wasn't shot, but my hands were tied," she told the New York Post.

"Right now, I feel there are monsters in school," she said. "I'm still perturbed. As I'm talking to you, I'm shaking."

Jaden, now six, remembers a man who was dressed like a cop walked in, sat at a big desk and threatened them.

"He was police," Jaden said. "He said, 'You know what happens when you don't go to sleep in there? . . . 'When you go to jail, you're not going to have no fun, no TV, no toys.' "

Education officials and the NYPD, which oversees school-safety officers, have yet to comment about the case at The Bilingual School in The Bronx.