A Sarasota high school has agreed to compensate the families of three students who committed suicide after illegally being hypnotized by their headmaster.
Former educator, George Kenney, routinely applied hypnosis on scores of teenagers at North Port High from 2006 until 2011,when the 55-year-old Florida man was finally compelled to resign.
The unlicensed hypnotist is accused of causing the wrongful deaths of two male students and one female student by subjecting them to dozens of mind-altering sessions, to the detriment of their psychological well being.
Parents of the deceased were each awarded this month with $200,000 for the lost affections of their dead children.
The now-retired headmaster found culpable for the teens’ extreme mental anguish and subsequent suicides has already served out a one-year sentence for illegally performing medical therapies at North Port.
However, in spite of Kenney’s criminal conviction and the school district’s recent settlement wrongful death payouts, he’s still eligible to receive his pension.
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