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Rebecca Ann Sedwick (October 19, 2000 – September 9, 2013) was a 12-year-old American student at Crystal Lake Middle School in Lakeland, Florida who died by suicide when she jumped off a concrete silo tower, just 1 month and 10 days before her thirteenth birthday.
Her suicide, after suffering months of bullying from school classmates, brought international attention to the problem of bullying in US schools. In March 2010, a state anti-bullying task force was set up as a result of her death. The Massachusetts legislation was signed into law on May 3, 2010. [45]
The families of Sladjana Vidović and 17-year-old Eric Mohat (another Mentor High School student who had committed suicide due to bullying) [23] sued the school in 2009 and 2010 respectively. [6] Both lawsuits alleged violations of the parents' 14th Amendment right to due process clauses. Neither family demanded compensation in their lawsuit ...
Diego’s death was preventable if this school had simply prioritized an anti-bullying policy.” “This lawsuit has put schools on notice to find ways to effectively deal with bullying and to ...
A lawsuit filed after 13-year-old Diego Stolz was beaten to death by two students at Landmark Middle School in California has ended in a $27 million settlement. After a child was bullied to death ...
According to the lawsuit, the bullying was reported to school officials but nothing was done to address the issue. Lawsuits Bergen school district employee claims retaliation after discrimination ...
Attorneys for Diego's aunt and uncle, Juana and Felipe Salcedo, said Wednesday that the settlement of the wrongful death lawsuit filed in October 2019 against the school district was a "very ...
[76] The students family filed a lawsuit against the school stating that the school ignored the bullying harm done to their son. [77] [78] This is the same private school that in 2020 along with many other schools nationwide had alumni accuse the school of racist bullying during their time at the school through an Instagram page Latin Survivors.