“I can assure you the district is not taking the position the family should have transferred Diego to another school site.” “The district remains committed to the safety of our students,” she wrote in an email.
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The district lawyers’ argument doesn’t mark a break from Moreno Valley Unified’s stated commitment to crack down on bullying, according to spokeswoman Anahi Velasco. According to their response, Stolz and his family “knew of the danger and risk incident to their activity, but nevertheless freely and voluntarily exposed themselves to all risks of harm and thus assumed all risk of harm incidental thereto.” 23 response to the lawsuit by Stolz’s family. O’Connor’s attorneys made a similar argument in their Nov. The law office of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith did not respond to a request for comment. Stolz’s family “failed to take proper care and/or reduce or mitigate any damages” caused by how the district handled bullying, lawyers from the Los Angeles firm of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith argue. Moreno Valley Unified “exercised reasonable diligence” according to its response to the lawsuit.
The district also changed how bullying reports are handled and increased training for administrators.īut according to the district’s legal team, what happened was Stolz’s fault, his family’s fault and the fault of the two boys who assaulted him. He died eight days later.Īfter the assault, the Moreno Valley Unified School District replaced Landmark’s administrators. His two assailants continued hitting him and Stolz never regained consciousness. His head struck a pillar and he dropped, unconscious. They sucker-punched Stolz in an attack captured on video.
According to his family, Assistant Principal Kamilah O’Connor said the two boys bullying him would be suspended and wouldn’t be on campus the next school day.īut, they were there. 13, 2019, he and an older cousin reported a bullying incident to the school, according to family members. Stolz, 13, was an eighth grader at Landmark Middle School. In plain English, “they’re blaming Diego and blaming the family for him being killed,” said Manhattan Beach attorney David Ring, who represents Stolz’s family in the lawsuit. 20 answer to a lawsuit filed by the family of Diego Stolz reads, in part. “Any injury or damage allegedly suffered by Plaintiffs occurred as a proximate result of negligence on their own part in that they failed to exercise ordinary care on his/her own behalf at the time and place alleged,” the Nov. The bullying and death of a Moreno Valley middle school student was his own fault and the fault of his family, according to school district lawyers.
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