Celaida Lissabet, 16, pats her mother Raquel Lissabet on the head as she wipes tears while describing how her daughter suffered brain damage from an inflatable sumo suit. The family is suing Mater Academy and a party rental company after the girl was injured during a school event. 
 
 During a Hialeah Gardens school Spirit Day, a teen girl dressed in an inflatable sumo wrestler suit for what was supposed to be a goofy match with a classmate. 
 
 But a lawsuit claims the sumo fun went horribly wrong, leaving the teen with severe brain damage after her head repeatedly struck the floor. 
 
 The girl, 15-year-old freshman Celaida Lissabet, and her mother late last week sued charter school Mater Academy and Mega Party Events, the company that supplied the inflatable suits, which the lawsuit contends are designed for use in violent recreational sumo wrestling games. 
 
 Adrian De La Rosa, owner of Mega Party Events, said the girl was outfitted according to instructions from the suits manufacturer. 
 
 The suit is fairly safe. Weve never had an injury like this, De La Rosa said. I really hope she is doing OK. 
 
 The Lissabets allege the school and company failed to ensure her helmet fit properly during the event last October. She was later rushed to the hospital after complaining of blurred vision, dizziness, nausea and headaches, according to to the negligence lawsuit filed by Davie attorney Lance Rudzinski. 
 
 The once-vibrant ninth-grader can no longer communicate properly and exhibits child-like behavior, Rudzinski said. 
 
 Now, she sits in her room at night, in the darkness and doesnt talk to anyone, he said. She has severe anxiety. Its a complete 180-degree turn for her and her family. Its really tragic. 
 
 Wrestling in inflatable sumo body suits is a party activity loosely fashioned after the ancient Japanese sport in which hefty wrestlers compete to push each other out of a circular ring. 
 
 In the American game, the match is conducted on a protective mat ring. But Celaida fell backward, hitting her head three times against the ground outside the mat, according to her attorneys. 
 
 The lawsuit was filed against Mater Academy, 7901 NW 103rd St., and West Kendalls Mega Party. The lawsuit alleges the company knew from prior similar incidents that participants faced serious injury. 
 
 A representative for Mater Academy said she could not immediately comment because the school had not been served the lawsuit, and the principal was out of town. 
 
 De La Rosa of Mega Party Events said the companys insurance carrier is exploring whether the girl had suffered the head injury prior to the October event. 
 
 Its not the first lawsuit involving the inflatable sumo game. 
 
 The most prominent: In 2007, Colorado woman sued the makers of an inflatable sumo suit after she fell and suffered severe brain damage during a company retreat. Jurors awarded her $2 million in damages. ||||| NBC 6's Gilma Avalos has the details on a family that is suing an event group and a local charter school after the family said their daughter suffered brain injuries while in an inflatable sumo wrestling suit. (Published Tuesday, July 22, 2014) 
 
 An inflatable sumo wrestling suit is at the center of a lawsuit from the family of a 15-year-old freshman student at Mater Academy in Hialeah Gardens. 
 
 According to the lawsuit, Celaida LIssabet, 15, was dressed in the inflatable suit at the school’s “Spirit Day” when things went wrong. 
 
 The suit lets people have mock sumo wrestling matches where the wrestlers try to push each other out of a ring. In the version played in the sumo suits, the match is conducted on a ring that features a protective mat. 
 
 But the lawsuit claims that Lissabet was not fitted in the suit properly and she ended up with severe brain damage after her head repeatedly hit the floor. 
 
 “Her head was hurting and her vision was blurry and she didn’t want to do it anymore,” Celaida’s mom Raquel Lissabet said. “The third time she was finally knocked down and they stood her up and sent her to class.” 
 
 The suit said as a result of the injuries Celaida suffered, she can no longer communicate properly and displays child-like behavior. 
 
 “It’s not my daughter,” Raquel Lissabet said. “It’s a completely different person. She now acts about seven or eight years old. She hasn’t been back to school. I don’t know if she’s ever going back to school.” 
 
 The lawsuit targets both Mater Academy and Mega Party Events, the company that provided the suits used during the Spirit Day activities. The lawsuit claims both the school and the event company failed to provide adequately trained employees or personnel at the time of the accident, or adequately fitting protective helmets. 
 
 The director of the Florida Consortium of Public Charter Schools said they could not confirm that Mater Academy had been served with the lawsuit, “therefore I cannot comment at this time.” Mega Party Events told NBC 6 that their equipment is up to the standards of the industry and that the victim was taken to the hospital several hours after she had left the event. 
 
 “You send your kids off to school to be safe and like I said, you come back and in a split second, your whole life has changed,” Raquel said. “She had plans. She had big plans which are no longer going to be.” 
 
 According to the Miami Herald, there have been other lawsuits over the inflatable sumo wrestling suits. The Herald reported that in a Colorado case where a woman claimed she suffered severe brain damage while in the suit and was awarded $2 million in damages by a jury. ||||| July 22, 2014 6:11 PM 
 
 MIAMI (CBSMiami) — An attorney announced Tuesday a lawsuit against a Hialeah school and a Miami event company, after a 15-year old girl suffered a major brain injury at a school event last year. 
 
 The attorney for 15-year old Celaida Lissabet announced a lawsuit against Mater Academy and Mega Party Events which was the company that organized the event. 
 
 He said what happened to Lissabet has left her unable to adequately communicate and with anxiety issues. 
 
 Her mother, Raquel Lissabet, said Celaida now acts like a 7-year old. 
 
 “It’s not my daughter. It’s a completely different person,” said Raquel Lissabet. 
 
 Click here to watch Carey Codd’s report. 
 
 As her mother spoke at a news conference Tuesday, Lissabet played tic tac toe with her father. 
 
 Raquel Lissabet said her daughter suffered a severe brain injury while wrestling in a sumo wrestling suit at a Spirit Day event at Mater Academy in Hialeah Gardens last October.Her mother said Celaida hit her head during the event and wanted to stop but event workers would not let her. 
 
 “The second time she told the gentleman that her head was hurting and she was seeing blurry and she didn’t want to do it anymore and he told her that she had to do it three times,” said Raquel Lissabet. 
 
 Her mother said there have been changes in the way her daughter eats, communicates and behaves. 
 
 “You thank God you have your daughter but at the same time it’s not who you know. You’re starting all over…a new child…a new person you need to learn and get used to,” said Raquel Lissabet. 
 
 The owner of Mega Party Events spoke to CBS4’s Carey Codd about the allegations in the lawsuit claiming the company was negligent. 
 
 Adrian de la Rosa said she didn’t think the allegations are accurate. 
 
 “Our attendants are very well-trained. The truth will come out one day,” said De La Rosa. 
 
 Lissabet’s attorney said the truth is that the girl was seriously injured at a school event where she should have been protected. 
 
 Celaida’s mother said her daughter dreamed of being a criminal profiler. 
 
 “She had big plans which no longer gonna be…that’s what doesn’t need to happen again,” she said. 
 
 Codd reached out to Mater Academy for a comment. They told our news partners at Univision that they have not yet been served with the lawsuit and could not speak about the allegations. 
 
 The owner of Mega Party Events told Codd that he hopes Celaida improves. He says he never reached out to her because the claim is being handled by the company’s insurance company. 
 
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– Celaida Lissabet, 15, was participating in what was supposed to be a fun event at her Miami-area charter school last October, wrestling with a classmate while wearing an inflatable sumo suit during "Spirit Day"—but things went terribly awry, leaving the girl with severe brain damage, according to a new lawsuit. The 9th-grader fell off the protective mat and hit her head on the ground three times; after being sent back to class, she complained of blurred vision, dizziness, nausea, and headaches, and was taken to the hospital. Her mom says the teen now acts like a child, has trouble communicating, and is plagued by anxiety, the Miami Herald reports. "The second time [she fell] she told the gentleman that her head was hurting and she was seeing blurry and she didn’t want to do it anymore and he told her that she had to do it three times," says Celaida’s mom, Raquel Lissabet, according to CBS Miami. "The third time she was finally knocked down and they stood her up and sent her to class." Now Raquel Lissabet is suing the school, Mater Academy, and Mega Party Events, the company that provided the suits. The lawsuit claims that both failed to provide adequately trained personnel and adequately fitting helmets, reports NBC 6 South Florida. "It’s not my daughter," Raquel Lissabet says. "It’s a completely different person." In 2007, a woman in Colorado won $2 million in damages after falling in an inflatable sumo wrestling suit at a company retreat and suffering severe brain damage. (In another freak accident last month, a 2-year-old was killed by a statue.)