The agreement announced Friday will go to the school board for Cincinnati Public Schools on Monday for approval in the Gabriel Taye case that dates to 2017.
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.
The parents of an 8-year-old student who killed himself after being persistently bullied can move forward with a lawsuit against the Cincinnati school district that alleges wrongful death and other charges, a federal appeals panel ruled Tuesday.
Gabriel Taye’s parents accuse school officials in Cincinnati of intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress and failure to report child ab.