IL: Court tosses lawsuit in sex-video suicide case

A federal judge in Chicago has dismissed a lawsuit brought against a suburban Chicago school by parents of a student who killed himself after staff warned him he may have to register as a sex offender because they suspected he made a video of himself having sex with a classmate without her knowledge. Full Article

Opinion

https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/illinois/ilndce/1:2017cv04036/340584/114/0.pdf?ts=1547809387

Related posts

Subscribe
Notify of

We welcome a lively discussion with all view points - keeping in mind...

 

  1. Submissions must be in English
  2. Your submission will be reviewed by one of our volunteer moderators. Moderating decisions may be subjective.
  3. Please keep the tone of your comment civil and courteous. This is a public forum.
  4. Swear words should be starred out such as f*k and s*t and a**
  5. Please avoid the use of derogatory labels.  Always use person-first language.
  6. Please stay on topic - both in terms of the organization in general and this post in particular.
  7. Please refrain from general political statements in (dis)favor of one of the major parties or their representatives.
  8. Please take personal conversations off this forum.
  9. We will not publish any comments advocating for violent or any illegal action.
  10. We cannot connect participants privately - feel free to leave your contact info here. You may want to create a new / free, readily available email address that are not personally identifiable.
  11. Please refrain from copying and pasting repetitive and lengthy amounts of text.
  12. Please do not post in all Caps.
  13. If you wish to link to a serious and relevant media article, legitimate advocacy group or other pertinent web site / document, please provide the full link. No abbreviated / obfuscated links. Posts that include a URL may take considerably longer to be approved.
  14. We suggest to compose lengthy comments in a desktop text editor and copy and paste them into the comment form
  15. We will not publish any posts containing any names not mentioned in the original article.
  16. Please choose a short user name that does not contain links to other web sites or identify real people.  Do not use your real name.
  17. Please do not solicit funds
  18. No discussions about weapons
  19. If you use any abbreviation such as Failure To Register (FTR), Person Forced to Register (PFR) or any others, the first time you use it in a thread, please expand it for new people to better understand.
  20. All commenters are required to provide a real email address where we can contact them.  It will not be displayed on the site.
  21. Please send any input regarding moderation or other website issues via email to moderator [at] all4consolaws [dot] org
  22. We no longer post articles about arrests or accusations, only selected convictions. If your comment contains a link to an arrest or accusation article we will not approve your comment.
  23. If addressing another commenter, please address them by exactly their full display name, do not modify their name. 
ACSOL, including but not limited to its board members and agents, does not provide legal advice on this website.  In addition, ACSOL warns that those who provide comments on this website may or may not be legal professionals on whose advice one can reasonably rely.  
 

11 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

“Judge Wood said there’s no evidence Walgren broke the law with the video…). Way to go Naperville North High School, you literally scared the boy to death without cause.

This isn’t the only time I’ve read where the threat of becoming a registrant has led to suicide. Surprises me that there are still so many idiots in black robes who to this day think the registry isn’t punishment.

I hope they keep fighting and win! Poor kid didn’t have a chance to be told by anyone intelligent about the witch hunt this country is doing to anyone ‘looking at someone under legal age’. Disgusting and pathetic what these Lawmakers have done to people, resulting in unnecessary deaths, all due to one attorney who was able to argue the Utter B*llshit that possessing such material somehow creates a market for it, despite the fact that the material is made without any transactional/monetary value in 99.5% of all cases and IS CONCENSUAL in many cases as well, according to science regarding how the adolescent mind works. I can’t believe this is still allowed to continue. The same B*ullshit argument could be made that any videos showing death on the internet create a ‘market for murder’. I mean, how Insanely Stupid does one need to be to believe this?

Why isn’t Critical Thinking taught in schools anymore? How much nonsense would we eliminate and lives improved if that was the case?

Just another dead young man because of the poor quality leadership. America is loosing its young people in droves to this and that. NO ONE CARES.

This kids death was in vain.
Does anyone know how to get a fund started for the Parents to keep this suit going?
People need to know this Registry IS PUNISHMENT and worse than death.

I can think of so many stories, news that showed a guilty verdicts judgement against individuals and or groups that were partly or wholly to blame for a death due to harassment, instigating, provoking, shaming, feeding lies, manipulating and many more wrongs…..
But when authorities and people in power are to blame the court’s just act as if they had no fault in the matter ! Now these parents had to bury a son for some screwed up laws and individuals having there damndable way which drove the boy to suicide,,,,,who could deny this clear reality. .! What a bunch of shiiit ,,,,scuuum a holes in this country ! To be the parent is beyond heartbreak, to know and be forced to live with low life garbage of leaders like them !

In reading the court document, they keep using this fact against him… “Walgren was an honor-roll student with no disciplinary record or history of violence or self-harm.” and in doing so, shift the blame for the suicide onto the student.

Essentially they are saying, even though we had no proof of a crime after this warrant-less search and that we (3 people in authority) questioned him without his parents there and no due process and did not see he was emotionally distressed, it’s not our fault. Give me a break.

The court did leave the case open for appeal… “Plaintiffs are granted leave to file a second amended complaint that remedies the pleading deficiencies discussed herein, if they are able to do so consistent with the requirements of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11.”

The motions to dismiss were granted on issues that can be remedied. In the end, I see this family winning huge. I also acknowledge that no amount of money will bring their “honor-roll student with no disciplinary record or history of violence or self-harm” back.