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March 7, 2019Cameron, MO |
By: AP
Mother sues school district in connection to son's suicide
A northwest Missouri woman alleges in a lawsuit that her
son's school district didn't do enough to stop students who bullied him because
of his Jewish faith, causing him to commit suicide.
Susan Welchel is suing the Cameron School District after her son, Lane, killed
himself in December 2017. He was a freshman at Cameron High School.
Welchel says her son was targeted by bullies in middle school and high school,
who joked about him being Jewish and about the Holocaust. She is suing the
school district, school board, the middle school principal and the
superintendent.
The St. Joseph News-Press reports school district officials declined to talk
about specific allegations in Welchel's lawsuit. But in a written statement,
officials said the district is committed to an inclusive culture and takes all
allegations of discrimination seriously.
