The families of three Florida students who died after being hypnotized by their then-principal will each receive $200,000 in a settlement with the school district.
The payout comes four years after former North Port High School Principal George Kenney hypnotized students Wesley McKinley, 16, Marcus Freeman, 16, and Brittany Palumbo, 17.
Though no explicit link tied the students’ deaths to Kenney’s hypnosis, the former principal admitted that he had hypnotized McKinley a day before the teenager killed himself in April 2011, the Herald-Tribune reported. Palumbo also took his life after being hypnotized.
School Board Settles With Families of Students Who Died After Being Hypnotized by Principal