Fat’s in fire over school trip hog-attack claim

THIS PIGGY is accused of going hog wild.

A Staten Island student says she was attacked by a pig during a school field trip to a Vermont farm — and her family is suing the city.

Nia Braithwaite, a student at Public School 57 in Grymes Hill, and her mother filed the lawsuit Friday against the city Education Department over the brutish boar they say “violently struck her.”

The girl and her mom, Nubia Braithwaite, claim the city is responsible for injuries Nia sustained from a hungry porker during an August 2016 class trip to the Reading farm.

Nia “was caused to be injured when defendants . . . placed the infant in an uncontrolled setting while the pig was feeding,” according to the complaint in Staten Island Supreme Court.

Nia was 10 at the time.

The evil-tempered swine “should have been known,” the complaint states, “to have previously exhibited dangerous, vicious and malicious natures, characteristics, propensities and similar incidents of physical violence.” When Nia was allowed contact with the pig at Spring Brook Farm by school staffers, the complaint says, the animal “violently struck her,” leaving the girl “sick, sore, lame and disabled” with undisclosed permanent injuries. Rob Macri, education director at Farms for City Kids, a nonprofit that brings students to visit Spring Brook Farm, said the charges are hogwash. “The young lady slipped and fell onto her knee as she was carrying food down to the pigs,” Macri said. “The young lady was not attacked by any pig.”

The Braithwaites — through their Manhattan-based attorney, Paul Marber — declined to provide any additional information about the incident or the girl’s injuries.

“We’ve conferred with our client, and they’re really not interested in expounding upon whatever is in the lawsuit,” Marber said. “They’ll just deal with the litigation.”

Marber declined to say how much money the Braithwaites seek.

A spokesman for the city Law Department said the city would review the complaint.