A 15-year-old boy who was initially targeted by a false rumor that he was unvaccinated was bullied relentlessly until he took his own life, a lawsuit claims.
The suit filed Monday (April 25) against the Latin School of Chicago alleges administrators at the private college prep school committed “willful failure” to stop the incessant bullying, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The late teen, identified as N.B. in the suit, transferred to the school due to its in-person learning during the coronavirus pandemic, the complaint states. A student whose parents are named in the lawsuit then started spreading a rumor that the 10th-grader, Nate Bronstein, was unvaccinated, according to the lawsuit.
Nate actually had been vaccinated, the lawsuit claims, but he was still harassed on a regular basis due to his perceived status until he killed himself.