15-09-2023, 03:01 PM
By Eric Levenson and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN
Updated 6:23 PM EDT, Thu September 14, 2023
A California school district agreed to pay $27 million to the legal guardians of a 13-year-old boy who was fatally beaten at school in what the family’s attorneys say is the “the largest bullying settlement in the United States.”
Diego Stolz was a student at Landmark Middle School in Moreno Valley, California, on September 16, 2019, when he was sucker-punched in the head by two other male students, according to the lawsuit. He fell to the ground and hit his head on a concrete pillar, causing a massive brain injury, the lawsuit states.
The fight was captured on graphic video by a witness. Diego never regained consciousness and died nine days later.
The wrongful death lawsuit, filed in 2020, alleged that administrators at the school had been warned before that Diego was being bullied, yet they “completely disregarded such warnings and did absolutely nothing to stop the bullying.” The suit also accused the Moreno Valley Unified School District and its employees of “blatantly ignoring red flags that could have saved Diego’s life.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/14/us/di...index.html
Updated 6:23 PM EDT, Thu September 14, 2023
A California school district agreed to pay $27 million to the legal guardians of a 13-year-old boy who was fatally beaten at school in what the family’s attorneys say is the “the largest bullying settlement in the United States.”
Diego Stolz was a student at Landmark Middle School in Moreno Valley, California, on September 16, 2019, when he was sucker-punched in the head by two other male students, according to the lawsuit. He fell to the ground and hit his head on a concrete pillar, causing a massive brain injury, the lawsuit states.
The fight was captured on graphic video by a witness. Diego never regained consciousness and died nine days later.
The wrongful death lawsuit, filed in 2020, alleged that administrators at the school had been warned before that Diego was being bullied, yet they “completely disregarded such warnings and did absolutely nothing to stop the bullying.” The suit also accused the Moreno Valley Unified School District and its employees of “blatantly ignoring red flags that could have saved Diego’s life.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/14/us/di...index.html