Months After Teen's Suicide, Another Lawsuit Alleges NJ District Ignored Bullying Claims

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A New Jersey school district is facing another lawsuit of allegedly failing to investigate harassment and bullying, coming just months after a teen student took her own life after being tormented on social media and video showed her attacked by classmates

The Central Regional School Board held its first meeting since a 14-year-old girl took her own life days after a brutal attack in the school hallway. NBC New York's Ida Siegal reports.

It marks the second lawsuit of its kind filed against the district. Both claims echo concerns raised after " within the district. In February, scores of people — including past and present students, as well as parents — lined up one-by-one to express their rage and fear to the school board."You need to make a change, now. That girl should still be alive, she shouldn’t have had to take her own life," a former student said to applause from the audience.

Kuch's father, who has loudly vocalized his frustrations with how the school handled his daughter's case, says that footage, a"She was on the floor blacked out and you guys didn’t do nothing about it. You guys could’ve prevented that," a friend of Kuch's told the school board."She made numerous reports about how she was being bullied and you guys sat there and did nothing.

 

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