Fla. Suit Blames School Officials in Pupil's Suicide

By Jessica Portner

On a fall afternoon nearly five years ago, 13-year-old Shawn Wyke hanged himself from an oak tree in the backyard of his Lake Wales, Fla., home.

Soon after, his mother filed a federal lawsuit against the local school board and some staff members at her son's junior high school, alleging that they had been negligent in Shawn's suicide and deprived him of his constitutional rights.

Carol Wyke blames several McLaughlin Junior High School officials...

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