An Ohio teen killed herself after she allegedly suffered years of bullying, according to court documents.
A lawsuit was filed by the parents of 13-year-old Emilie Olsen against the Fairfield City School District, school administrators, and her alleged bullies. They claim the school and its administrators did nothing to stop her being bullied.
In the past several weeks, high-level school officials left their posts. Last week Fairfield Middle School Principal Lincoln Butts, a defendant, resigned for “personal reasons.”
Olsen shot and killed herself at home in December 2014.
According to a report from WCPO-TV last week, Butts resigned amid a lawsuit alleging he intimidated the parents, Cindy and Marc Olsen.
They claim he showed up at their home with two police officers after their daughter’s death.
The lawsuit alleges that Butts and police officers demanded that Marc Olsen let them into his house but refused to say why they were there. One officer showed his badge.
Their daughter had taken her own life just a few days prior.
Instead of giving them his sympathy, Butts attempted to “intimidate Marc Olsen into ’shutting up‘ and ceasing all interviews with the local media,” the suit claims. “They told Marc Olsen he was ’stirring the pot’ and ‘entertaining rumors’ and in doing so ’causing an issue for the school and the community,'” the Olsens said in a filing in federal court in April.
Marc Olsen told Butts and the police officers to leave his residence, and he said one of the cops told him to sit down because they weren’t finished talking to them. The officers and Butts also refused to leave.
Butts resignation is effective as of June 30.
“The District will be defending the litigation and will be providing appropriate responses in the course of the litigation. The District has no further comment at this time regarding this pending matter,” the school district said in a statement to WCPO.
