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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Nader Issa

Latin School student died by suicide after ‘increasingly cruel’ bullying ignored by adults, suit seeking $100M alleges

A 15-year-old boy died by suicide in January after “increasingly cruel” bullying by his peers at the prestigious Latin School of Chicago, his family alleged in a lawsuit this week.

The boy’s parents alleged administrators at the private Gold Coast high school “willfully turned a blind eye” despite the boy’s pleas for help as he was “tormented on a regular basis” by other kids.

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