The mother of a 12-year-old Florida girl who authorities say jumped to her death because of bullying, is suing the Polk County School Board, alleging that the school board didn't do enough to protect her daughter, CBS reported.
The suit was filed Monday in Polk County and also names a construction materials company and a teenager accused of stalking her daughter, CBS reported.
Rebecca Sedwick leaped to her death at an abandoned concrete plant in September 2013 when she was 12. The sheriff's office arrested two of her classmates a month later, ages 12 and 14, on charges of aggravated stalking when one of the suspects posted an incriminating message on Facebook, but the charges were later dropped due to insufficient evidence, according to CBS.
"You see a pattern of harassment, a pattern of intimidation and that's what they did. They intimidated this girl. They harassed her. She had no peace," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told CBS last October.
Tricia Norman, Sedwick's mother, is seeking more than $15,000 as she claims the School Board didn't properly supervise the girl accused of stalking her daughter, and she accuses the construction company of negligent maintenance, CBS states.
According to CBS, the lawsuit claims the teen "engaged in an open, notorious, and protracted pattern of bullying against Rebecca Sewick" and that the school board "had a duty to provide an educational setting that was safe, secure and free from harassment, intimidation, abuse, unwanted touching and bullying."
CBS says the lawsuit seeks money for funeral expenses, damages, pain and suffering.
