“They do not take heed to me daddy,” the kid stated after directors allegedly did not take motion — this in response to a lawsuit claiming youngsters referred to as the boy “Dahmer,” “Beaver Tooth,” threw him right into a trash can and informed him to hold himself, all earlier than his brother discovered him unresponsive in his bed room.
This story incorporates references to suicide, and could also be triggering for these affected by self-harm, suicide or suicidal ideas.
The mother and father of a 10-year-old Indiana boy who allegedly dedicated suicide after relentless bullying have filed a wrongful dying lawsuit in opposition to his faculty.
Sam and Nicole Teusch — the mother and father of Sammy Teusch, who was discovered lifeless by his household on Could 5, 2024 — filed the lawsuit in Hancock County Circuit Courtroom on Tuesday in opposition to the Greenfield-Central Group Faculty Company and Greenfield-Central Group Faculty Company Board of Trustees.
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Within the swimsuit (through WRTV), the boy’s mother and father allege “callous indifference” by the District and plenty of its workers, who they declare had been “repeatedly knowledgeable in regards to the bullying of Sammy Teusch (‘Sammy’) by college students beneath the District’s supervision, and but did nothing to deal with it.”
“As a direct and proximate results of the District’s and these people’ gross dereliction of arguably their most necessary obligation, Sammy took his personal life on Could 5, 2024,” they allege within the swimsuit.
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Detailed Bullying Allegations
Remembering their son as a “good, humorous and loving boy, who cherished to fish, play with robots, play soccer, be open air, and lead his household round to collect up trash each time they went to the seaside or on a nature hike,” the Teusches declare that when he started faculty at Weston Elementary in Greenfield, Indiana, he “was subjected to bullying by his classmates.”
Per the swimsuit, Sammy was referred to as “Dahmer,” in reference to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. His mother and father declare that when the boy complained to his trainer in regards to the identify, “her solely response was that, in her opinion, Sammy did considerably resemble Jeffrey Dahmer.”
The docs declare Sammy would “flip his desk over in an try to attract his trainer’s consideration to the bullying,” however his “cry for assist didn’t work” — alleging the boy would as a substitute be disciplined for “what she perceived to be disruptive conduct.”
After mother and father additionally allegedly complained to the principal, they are saying she allowed Sammy to have lunch in her workplace — however famous, “It’s unknown whether or not [the principal] took any disciplinary actions in the direction of the bullies, or knowledgeable their mother and father.”
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When Sammy shifted to Greenfield Intermediate Faculty as he entered fourth grade, his mother and father stated the bullying continued.
“Throughout breakfast interval, Sammy was chased all through the college, and would try to cover in a toilet stall, usually refusing to come back out,” reads the swimsuit, earlier than detailing how he was allegedly “bodily assaulted” by one other pupil. The scholar is accused of choking and punching the opposite boy within the face, allegedly leading to abrasions and swelling.
One other pupil is accused of hitting Sammy within the head with an iPad, leaving the boy with a black eye and neck and shoulder accidents, per the docs. That pupil was additionally accused of stuffing Sammy right into a rubbish can.
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The swimsuit claims the boy’s bullies additionally made enjoyable of his glasses and tooth, calling him “Beaver Tooth.”
In keeping with the lawsuit, roughly 20 studies had been made by Sammy’s mother and father to his lecturers, principal, vice principal and college counselor.
“Regardless of information of the continued bullying and harassment, the District didn’t take acceptable corrective motion. This callous disregard for Sammy’s security exasperated him, at one level telling [his father], ‘They do not take heed to me daddy,'” the swimsuit alleges.
The swimsuit additionally claims the college participates in “sufferer shaming and sufferer blaming,” alleging administration maintained the bullying was a “Sammy downside,” he was the instigator and he was being bullied “due to his ‘psychological issues.'”
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Sammy’s Suicide
On Could 4, per the docs, one of many alleged bullies referred to as a mutual pal who was visiting Sammy’s sister Scarlett — and “threatened Sammy saying, ‘Oh, you wait till Monday. I am getting you. I am getting you.”
“However [the alleged bully] by no means obtained the chance to hold via on his threats. On Could 5, 2024, at roughly 11:30 a.m., Sammy was discovered hanging from his bunk mattress by his 13- year-old brother Xander Teusch,” reads the docs.
“After calling 911, [his father] went to Sammy, grabbed him and stated ‘Oh my God, oh my God, no, no, no, no, no.’ Sam began doing compressions, respiration into Sammy, and making an attempt to get a heartbeat.”
The kid was pronounced lifeless on the hospital.
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In keeping with the lawsuit, the alleged bully who made the Could 4 cellphone name “acknowledged his duty for Sammy taking his life.” A Snapchat screenshot was additionally included within the docs, displaying somebody say, “It is all my fault for bullying him.” The swimsuit provides, “This admission — from a baby — is in stark distinction to the District’s disregard for and denial of the bullying happening at its faculties.”
The submitting additionally accuses one other alleged bully for taking photographs of Sammy in his open casket at his funeral. The swimsuit claims this pupil “was thereafter seen laughing whereas [their] cellphone, in a blood-curdling second harking back to the film Youngsters of the Corn.”
This pupil, alleges the docs, “was no unusual bully” and was “clearly disturbed, if not inhuman” — earlier than the swimsuit claims the college district “did nothing” after being “repeatedly knowledgeable” of the scholar’s alleged conduct.
Along with wrongful dying, Sammy’s mother and father accuse the plaintiffs of negligent care and supervision, whereas requesting a jury trial.
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When reached for remark after the submitting by WRTV, the Greenfield-Central Group Faculty Company reportedly referred the outlet to an earlier assertion.
“The loss of a kid to suicide is deflating to any neighborhood, and Greenfield was clearly in shock for just a few weeks as we closed final faculty 12 months. Members of the college company and the bigger neighborhood grieved with the Teusch household, and we are going to proceed to increase them assist and charm within the aftermath of the occasion,” they stated beforehand.
“Since that horrible day (Could fifth), we have now reviewed our data with nice scrutiny and interviewed many individuals near the state of affairs. To today, we have now discovered nothing to validate the allegation you referenced,” they added. “We imagine an goal overview of the data would attain the identical conclusion. In Greenfield-Central we do wish to make sure that we’re doing all we will do to assist our college students, whatever the wants they’ve after they stroll via our doorways. We are going to at all times keep that dedication to our college students and households.”
An investigation by Greenfield, Indiana police beforehand confirmed that “there was some bullying happening” in Sammy’s life earlier than the kid’s “traumatic” dying, in response to a information launch issued by Police Chief Brian Hartman.
Per the investigation, the Hancock County coroner dominated Sammy died from “asphyxiation by strangulation,” Hartman stated. He additionally famous that “there might be no felony prices filed with the Hancock County Prosecutor.”
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