School administrators kept silent as a depressed Westchester teen spiraled to suicidal depths, his parents claim in a lawsuit.
The parents are suing Bedford Central School District in Manhattan Federal Court, accusing staff at Fox Lane Middle School of doing nothing as their 13-year-old son had a public meltdown in the cafeteria after breaking up with his girlfriend, and sent an email on school computer systems proclaiming he wanted to kill himself.
The child hanged himself in the family basement in December 2017, said the parents in legal papers, which they filed anonymously.
“When a student has an open and obvious psychological breakdown at school, we expect the school to help him: inform his parents, provide him with psychological assistance, do something to help him,” the parents charge in court papers.
Despite extra psychological monitoring of their son after he spent years being severely bullied, the school psychologist only told the parents to keep him away from his ex, they claim.
The family is seeking unspecified damages. Bedford Superintendent Christopher Manno declined comment on the litigation.