Adriana Kuch’s family claims NJ school failed to protect teen who was driven to suicide from bullying
NY Post
The family of the 14-year-old girl who was driven to suicide last year over intense bullying at her New Jersey high school claimed in a new lawsuit Monday that district officials did nothing to stop the “culture of violence” leading up to her tragic death.
Central Regional School District officials failed to protect freshman Adriana Kuch from getting beat up, and then failed again when footage of the assault was posted online before her tragic suicide, the lawsuit, brought by her father Michael Kuch, alleges.
And following her death, the now-former school superintendent, Triantafillos Parlapanides, defamed the teen girl’s mourning father when he accused him of having an affair while married to Kuch’s mother, according to the lawsuit, which was filed in state court.
Kuch was viciously assaulted by a pack of teenage girls in a school hallway on Feb. 1. Footage of the incident was then shared on social media, leading to an avalanche of hateful comments that humiliated the teen.
She took her own life two days later inside her bedroom.
“Defendants … knew or should have known that, prior to February 1, 2023, instances of harassment, intimidation, and bullying within the Central Regional School District had created a culture of violence at Central Regional High School,” according to the lawsuit, which named multiple school officials.
