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This photo provided by Cornelia Reynolds shows her son Gabriel Taye when he was in second grade. The parents of the 8-year-old boy, who killed himself after being bullied repeatedly at an Ohio school, have reached a tentative $3 million settlement with his school district. The agreement announced Friday, June 4, 2021, will go to the school board for Cincinnati Public Schools on Monday, June 7 for approval in the case that dates to 2017.
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The parents of an 8-year-old boy who killed himself after being bullied repeatedly at an Ohio school have reached a tentative $3 million settlement with his school district.
At 8 years old, Cavanaugh Bell from Gaithersburg, Maryland, has seen the change one person can make, regardless of age.
When he was in kindergarten, then 6-year-old Cavanaugh spoke to his local city council about his experiences with bullying and asked them to dedicate Feb. 21 as Bullying Awareness Day, though he “didn’t even know what the city council was,” Cavanaugh said.
At 4 years old, Cavanaugh attended the 2017 Women’s March with his mother, Llacey Simmons. That was the first time she saw things begin to click for Cavanaugh, his mother said.
And when he was not quite 3 years old, Simmons realized for the first time her son might be different. She recalled that day when they were watching the children’s movie “Charlotte’s Web.”
Ohio Parents Say School District Covered Up Chronic Bullying that Led 8-Year-Old Son to Commit Suicide
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An Ohio court has ruled in favor of the family of an 8-year-old boy who committed suicide after enduring horrifying and constant bullying at school.
Gabriel Taye, a third-grade student at Carson Elementary School in Cincinnati, hanged himself on January 27, 2017. Taye was subjected to constant bullying that took place at his school without his parents being made aware by school officials. Taye’s family filed a lawsuit against the Cincinnati Public School District, citing a cover-up that took place in an effort to keep secret the persistent, abusive, and aggressive bullying that took place on school grounds.
On Tuesday, an Ohio judge ruled that parents of an 8-year-old boy who died by suicide in 2017 can sue the school district for their son’s death.
Carson Elementary student Gabriel Taye was reportedly bullied in the three years leading up to his death. The third-grader’s parents sued Cincinnati Public Schools’ Board of Education, alleging school officials not only failed to intervene, but they never told the boy’s parents about the relentless bullying before his death, according to WXIX.
The parents’ lawsuit also lists Carson Elementary’s principal Ruthenia Jackson, ex-vice principal Jeffrey McKenzie, former school nurse Margaret McLaughlin, and former superintendent Mary Ronan as defendants.
Updated: 12:03 PM PST, December 30, 2020
A wrongful death suit against Cincinnati Public School can go to trial, an appellate court has ruled, over the suicide of an 8-year-old who was bullied for years.
The parents of an 8-year-old boy who took his own life after being bullied for years have won a key legal victory in their battle to sue the Cincinnati school district, an appellate court ruled.
Education officials recklessly handled the prolonged bullying of third-grader Gabriel Taye because they knew Taye was harassed and bullied at school and utterly failed to protect him, according to an opinion written by Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Bernice Bouie Donald and released on Tuesday.