Parents file wrongful death suit against Greenfield-Central Schools [Video]

GREENFIELD, Indiana — The parents of a 10-year-old Greenfield boy who died by suicide after they said he faced relentless bullying have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Greenfield-Central Schools. 

Fourth-grader Sammy Teusch was found dead by suicide in his bedroom May 5, 2024. On Dec. 17, his parents Sam and Nicole Teusch filed the lawsuit in Hancock County Court against the Greenfield-Central Community School Corporation and its board of trustees, requesting a jury trial. 

In a press release, lawyers for the parents say that in the suit they describe “the abuse, assault, and terror their young son went through at the hands of school bullies, and how the school failed to protect their son.”

“Sammy’s abusers urged him to hang himself; they chased him, stalked him, punched him, choked him – all while school officials for months callously dismissed and disregarded Sammy’s pleas for protection,” Brian Grossman, …