School Board Settles With Families of Students Who Died After Being Hypnotized by Principal

[davidn3600]

Odd story.... of course it's in Florida....

The families of three Florida students who died after being hypnotized by their then-principal will each receive $200,000 in a settlement with the school district.

The payout comes four years after former North Port High School Principal George Kenney hypnotized students Wesley McKinley, 16, Marcus Freeman, 16, and Brittany Palumbo, 17.

Though no explicit link tied the students’ deaths to Kenney’s hypnosis, the former principal admitted that he had hypnotized McKinley a day before the teenager killed himself in April 2011, the Herald-Tribune reported. Palumbo also took his life after being hypnotized.

Freeman died in a 2011 car accident after he hypnotized himself, a technique Kenney had taught him in order to help the quarterback concentrate and not worry about pain during games, according to court documents.

The 16-year-old football player was killed when he veered off a highway as he drove home from a painful dentist visit, the Herald-Tribune wrote. His girlfriend, who was also in the car and survived, said that Freeman got a strange look on his face before he went off the road, the paper reported.

An investigation found that Kenney had hypnotized as many as 75 students, staff members and others from 2006 until McKinley’s death. One student athlete recalled being hypnotized as many as 40 times to improve his concentration, the Herald-Tribune wrote.

http://news.yahoo.com/school-board-settles-families-students-164530266.html

[Logical]

1. Is hypotism a real thing? If you don't believe in it it does not work! Nt

[edhopper]

3. It's a very real thing

but it's not the stage hypnotism you see dramatized in movies.


My guess is the school district worried about a bigger jury penalty and settled, whether this hypnotism actually caused any of this, (which it probably didn't)

[Hell Hath No Fury]

5. It's real.

But it is simply a tool for creating focus and insight. You don't go unconscious, you remember what occurred -- you are just in a heightened state of awareness.

[prayin4rain]

2. Wow, what a weird story. Sounds like a movie plot. n/t

[Hell Hath No Fury]

4. Been hypnotized dozens of times --

for therapeutic reasons, including phobias, anxieties, and personal betterment.

Incredibly helpful and have never had a problem associated with the treatments.

Hypnosis cannot make you do something against your will nor can the person administering the treatment "plant" a suggestion that would endanger you, it just doesn't work that way.