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1 week agoFrench court gives teacher suspended sentence over pupil's suicide
A teacher received a suspended one-year sentence for bullying an 11-year-old pupil who committed suicide in 2019.
According to the family's lawsuit, early this year the boy inadvertently uploaded an image or video of himself exposing himself to his Snapchat connections, one of whom saved it. The next day Gabriel told his parents, Felipe and Orsolya Palacios, who called the school and the police. A criminal investigation ensued, and the bullying escalated, the lawsuit says. Palacios' mother met with the vice principal, and the lawsuit alleges that the vice principal met with the students suspected of possession and distribution of the upload.
Ethan left this world believing he had failed, and [that] the University of Glasgow were correct, Tracy Scott said, as the family and their lawyer, Aamer Anwar, released the university's inquiry findings.