Family gets 'historic' settlement after boy killed in bullying attack

A Southern California school district agreed to pay $27 million to the family of a 13-year-old boy who was fatally attacked by his classmates during school lunch in what the family’s attorneys are saying is the largest school bullying settlement in U.S. history. Diego Stolz’s guardians sued the Moreno Valley Unified School District after he died in September of 2019, claiming school officials ignored complaints that he was being bullied at Landmark Middle School.

Stolz was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support after the fight. He sustained a traumatic brain injury and died nine days later. The two boys involved in the assault, who were 14 at the time, admitted to charges of involuntary manslaughter, according to NBC News. They reportedly spent 47 days in juvenile custody and were ordered to undergo anger management therapy.

On Sept. 12, 2019, the family said he went to his science teacher for help after he was sucker-punched in the head, according to the news release from the family’s attorneys. The teacher informed the assistant principal that day and she claimed she would review the security footage to find the perpetrators, but she did not.

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