The superintendent of the New Jersey faculty district the place 14-year-old Adriana Kuch was attacked by students in a hallway and took her life days later has resigned.
Kuch was discovered useless in her Bayville dwelling two days after the Feb. 1 assault at a highschool. The assault was recorded, and the 4 college students concerned within the assault have been suspended and charged, officers mentioned.
The Central Regional College District introduced on Saturday that it accepted the resignation of Superintendent Triantafillos Parlapanides.
“The Central Regional household continues to mourn the lack of one among our kids,” the assertion, posted to the district’s web site, learn. “The Central Regional College District is evaluating all present and previous allegations of bullying.”
The district didn’t make clear why Parlapanides resigned or reply to requests for remark.
The previous superintendent had made feedback in interviews with newspapers, together with the DailyMail, by which he prompt {the teenager} used medication, and her father had refused the district’s provides to assist.
In an interview with the New York Post, Kuch’s father, Michael Kuch, accused Parlapanides of “blaming” his daughter and mentioned drug counseling had not been supplied to her. The daddy added that his daughter had experimented with a marijuana vape pen, however no different medication.
NBC Information reached out to Michael Kuch Sunday. On Saturday, he reposted the district’s assertion concerning Parlapanides’ resignation to his Fb writing: “I’ll let this communicate for itself.”
Parlapanides resigned throughout an emergency zoom assembly on Saturday to debate his feedback, in response to NBC New York.
The resignation got here a day after funeral companies have been held for {the teenager}.
The assault on Kuch at Central Regional Excessive College garnered nationwide consideration after video of it was posted on-line.
Of the 4 college students who allegedly participated within the assault, one was charged with aggravated assault, one other with harassment and two others with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer mentioned in an announcement Friday.
Their names haven’t been launched. NBC Information doesn’t often identify minors charged with crimes, even these charged as adults.
“Every juvenile and their guardian was served with a duplicate of their criticism and are launched pending future courtroom appearances,” Billhimer mentioned.
Michael Kuch mentioned in Facebook posts and to NBC New York that a number of college students attacked his daughter whereas she was strolling together with her boyfriend within the hallway.
He wrote on Fb {that a} video of the combat was posted on-line and Adriana, a freshman, had been tagged in it. He mentioned he believes it was posted to “make enjoyable of her on-line.”
Kuch expressed outrage over the college’s dealing with of the incident, telling NBC New York that police have been by no means known as despite the fact that Adriana blacked out and had bruises on her physique.
Earlier than stepping down as superintendent, Parlapanides mentioned on Friday that police have been notified and that “academics and security officers intervened” within the combat. He declined to offer additional particulars concerning the concerned college students or the combat.
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