Wyoming Teacher Charged in Connection to 5th Grade Boy’s Suicide in School Bathroom
A Wyoming teacher has pleaded “not guilty” to charges related to a 5th-grade student’s suicide.
Carpenter Elementary music teacher Amelia Giordano was arraigned on Thursday for a misdemeanor charge of “abandoning or endangering a child.”
The student, Paul Pine, had reportedly been struggling with his mental health last school year, and his difficulty reading was causing him to be singled out by teachers, according to his mother, Chandel Pine.
In the fall, Pine told his mother that he was having thoughts of suicide. More specifically, the child was thinking about hanging himself in the boys’ bathroom at the school.
“After that, Chandel Pine contacted school officials and made arrangements for an individualized education program to try and keep him safe at school,” The Blaze reports.
