ABC 7 New York reports on a new lawsuit was filed Monday, claiming that Fatima Ptacek, the 15-year-old voice actor most recently behind classic Nickelodeon character Dora the Explorer, was given special treatment by her private school after being caught vaping caramel-flavored water with two other girls in a school bathroom last December.

Whereas one of the girls was kicked out of the school following the incident, Ptacek was only suspended for three days. (The third girl involved was not disciplined at all.) Now the parents of the expelled teen have filed a lawsuit against Manhattan's Avenues: The World School, where tuition costs over $47,000 a year, claiming Ptacek peer pressured their daughter into getting her vape on. They also claim Ptacek's fame "may have played a role in why she was ultimately not expelled even after the school threatened as much," in their lawsuit, adding that their daughter "was expelled instead as a scapegoat."

The suit also asks that the teen in question be re-enrolled in the school, and seeks $40,000 in damages to cover tuition payments and legal fees.

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