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Mon Apr 1, 2019, 09:15 AM Apr 2019

16-year-old Illinois boy commits suicide after police threatened him with lifetime sex registry [View all]

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16 year old boy commits suicide after police threatened him with lifetime sex registry about allegation of video sexual encounter with a female classmate.



Judge dismisses lawsuit alleging police, school district contributed to Naperville North student's suicide

By Suzanne Baker
Naperville Sun
JANUARY 22, 2019, 5:20 PM

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the city of Naperville and Naperville School District 203 filed by the family of the Naperville North High School student who died by suicide after being called into the dean’s office for disciplinary action. ... The judge ruled school and police officials were doing their jobs when they conducted a Jan. 11, 2017, interview with Corey Walgren at Naperville North High School less than two hours before the 16-year-old junior slipped out of the school and jumped from the top of a downtown Naperville municipal parking deck.

The lawsuit accused the school’s deans Stephen Madden and James Konrad and Officer Brett Heun, then a resources officer at the school, of causing “extreme, intolerable and excessive emotional and psychological distress” and breaking the law by interrogating Walgren without first notifying his parents, Douglas and Maureen Walgren. ... It was also alleged the men made reckless and alarming accusations against the teen that “literally scared him to death,” Walgren family attorney Terry Ekl said when the suit was filed in May 2017.

In the 22-page ruling issued Jan. 17, Judge Andrea Wood wrote there is no evidence the defendants specifically intended to separate Walgren from his parents. “Rather, their actions were aimed at uncovering whether Walgren had engaged in criminal misconduct,” the ruling said. ... Wood also wrote that while the interrogation tactics used by the deans and police were “harsh and aggressive, they were nonetheless ordinary police interrogation tactics.”

According to the lawsuit, Heun and Madden questioned the teen about an allegation that he had a video of a recent sexual encounter with a female classmate on his phone and that he had played the recording for friends. They accused Walgren of possessing child pornography and threatened him with placement on the state's sex offender registry, according to the lawsuit. The recording they sought, however, ended up being a video file with no discernible images. Police described it as "very dark" and "more of only audio." ... Wood went on to write, “Faced with the implied threat of such consequences, it is perhaps unsurprising that a previously well-adjusted teenager’s emotional state could deteriorate to such a point that he would contemplate taking his life. Nonetheless, these events as currently pleaded do not plausibly allege the constitutional violations asserted by plaintiffs.”
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