A brand new charge was filed this week against one of many 4 college students concerned in the New Jersey school hallway attack on 14-year-old Adriana Kuch, who died by suicide days later.
The student, who was beforehand charged with harassment in reference to the attack, has now been charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer mentioned in a press release Thursday.
“The juvenile was served a replica of that criticism and was launched pending future court docket appearances,” the assertion learn, including the extra charge was “primarily based upon our ongoing investigation.”
The case sparked student walkouts and garnered nationwide consideration after video of the Feb. 1 attack at Central Regional Excessive School in Berkeley Township was posted on-line.
Adriana was discovered useless in her Bayville house on Feb. 3. The 4 college students concerned in the assault have been suspended and charged.
Two of them have been additionally charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, Billhimer beforehand mentioned. One other was charged with aggravated assault.
Their names haven’t been launched. NBC News doesn’t often title minors charged with a criminal offense, even these charged as adults.
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Adriana’s father, Michael Kuch mentioned in Fb posts and to NBC New York that a number of college students attacked his daughter whereas she was strolling together with her boyfriend in the hallway.
He wrote on Fb {that a} video of the battle was posted on-line and that Adriana, a freshman, had been tagged in it. He mentioned he believes it was posted to “make enjoyable of her on-line.”
Kuch has since deleted his Fb account.
Triantafillos Parlapanides, who was superintendent of the Central Regional School District on the time of the attack, resigned a day after Adriana’s funeral providers.
The previous superintendent had advised in interviews with information shops, together with the Each day Mail, that Adriana used medicine and that her father had refused the district’s provides to assist.
In an interview with the New York Submit, Adriana’s father, Michael Kuch, accused Parlapanides of “blaming” his daughter and mentioned drug counseling had not been supplied to her. The daddy added that his daughter had experimented with a marijuana vape pen, however no different medicine.
“My daughter was lovely, and I’m not going to speak about tabloid trash,” Kuch mentioned to NBC News about Parlapanides’ feedback.
