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The L.A. school funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation is about to face new claims of bullying, including one incident
involving a 14-year-old trying to kill herself.
TMZ gathered there is a new lawsuit about to be filed by the
same lawyers at Geragos & Geragos, who filed the first suit against the
Animo Westside Charter Middle School.
The initial suit surrounds the video of one student choking
another, whose parents claim he suffered permanent brain damage in the
incident.
The forthcoming suit documents the alleged bullying
experienced by a now-14-year-old girl, who's claiming she too was mercilessly
bullied last year on the campus, and the school failed to stop it.
The girl is claiming to have suffered both physical and
verbal abuse from multiple students, with one girl leading the pack. It got so
bad, the alleged victim started cutting herself and months later, attempted
suicide.
She had to be hospitalized on a psychiatric hold as a
result. Her family is blaming the school as well as Green Dot, the organization
that operates the school.
Bill and Melinda Gates are not being sued, and neither is
their foundation, which has donated more than $7 million to Green Dot.
The story about the brain-damaged student, has led to several
other parents have contacted attorneys with similar complaints about severe
bullying at Animo Westside.
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