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Tuesday 8 augusT 2017
Parents’ lawsuit blames schools for bullying, child suicide

cials allowed and covered tary School.
up bullying. “If CPS had been honest
The wrongful death suit with her about what hap-
filed by the parents of Ga- pened in the bathroom,
briel Taye names officials how long he had been
at his elementary school unconscious, and the dan-
and at the Cincinnati Pub- gerous school environment
lic Schools district as defen- Gabe had to navigate
dants. It seeks damages to each day of third grade,
be determined in a trial. she would never had let
Attorneys have said his him return to Carson,”
mother didn’t know her son Branch said in a statement.
was bullied until the lawyers Prosecutors recently closed
saw a Cincinnati police de- their investigation into Ga-
tective’s email describing briel’s death without charg-
the scene outside a boys’ ing anyone. The coroner
bathroom where attorneys last month stood by her
say Gabriel was knocked original finding of suicide
unconscious. He hanged in a review after authorities
himself at home two days opened Gabriel’s grave in
later on Jan. 26. June to remove an elec-
Attorney Jennifer Branch tronic tablet buried with
said Cornelia Reynolds’ him to see if it might provide
words were “if I had only additional information. His
This May 12, 2017 photo shows the Carson School, an elementary school in Cincinnati. A federal
lawsuit says a “treacherous school environment” that allowed and covered up bullying led to known” after Branch de- mother had said she buried
the suicide of an 8-year-old Ohio boy. The wrongful death suit filed Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, by scribed the bathroom as- the tablet with him to make
the parents of Gabriel Taye names officials at his elementary school and at the Cincinnati Public sault to the devastated sure he’d have something
Schools district as defendants. mother. She said the par- to “play with in heaven.”
(AP Photo/Lisa Cornwell) ents also learned after his The school district has said
By DAN SEWELL parents of an 8-year-old school environment,” alleg- death that he, and other Gabriel told staff he fainted
Associated Press boy who hanged him- ing in a federal lawsuit filed children, had been bullied and never said he was bul-
CINCINNATI (AP) — The self blame a “treacherous Monday that school offi- before at Carson Elemen- lied or assaulted. q

Court hearing for boater whose
family died mysteriously at sea

By MICHELLE R. SMITH federal magistrate judge in
Associated Press Rhode Island to discuss the
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — case. Carman, who lives in
Lawyers for a man suspect- Vernon, Vermont, was not
ed of killing his millionaire seen at the courthouse,
grandfather in 2013 met and both sides declined to
with a judge Monday in a comment after the hear-
lawsuit over the sinking of ing. A court filing later Mon-
his boat with his mother on- day showed the judge is-
board. Nathan Carman’s sued a pretrial order that
boat sank last year during sets deadlines for discovery
a fishing trip with his moth- and other pretrial matters
er. He was rescued after a for Carman and his insurer.
week on a life raft, but his David Farrell, a lawyer for
mother was never found the insurer, the National Li-
and is now presumed ability & Fire Insurance Co.
dead. Since then, Carman and Boat Owners Associa-
has been at the center of tion of the United States,
a number of legal matters. told the court in a filing last
He has denied any involve- week that he anticipated
ment in his grandfather’s that Carman’s “criminal
killing and has said he wrongdoing” and “illegal-
didn’t sabotage the boat. ity” will bar his insurance
Carman’s insurance com- claim. Farrell wrote that
pany is refusing to pay an Carman’s actions regard-
$85,000 claim for the boat, ing his mother’s death and
saying that Carman made his grandfather’s homi-
“incomplete, improper, cide, “potentially similarly
and faulty repairs” to the motivated by” Carman’s
vessel the day before it possible multimillion-dollar
sank and that he knew it inheritance, are all within
was “unseaworthy.” the scope of what the in-
Lawyers for Carman and surer might explore as it
his insurer met Monday be- assembles evidence in the
hind closed doors with a case.q