$600k awarded in compensation after three teens died following high school

Despite the settlement, the attorney representing the three families told the Herald Tribune his clients really just wanted the school district to be accountable.

Two of the students committed suicide and a third died in a vehicle accident after hypnotizing himself.

A subsequent investigation found that Kenney hypnotised as many as 75 students, staff members and others from 2006 until McKinley’s death, The Herald-Tribune reports. The civil case was due to go to trial on October 12. The $600,000 payout to the parents of the hypnotized students was the largest amount allowed without garnering specific approval from both the governor and the state legislature.

Kenney hypnotized Freeman, a quarterback for the North Port High football team, to help him concentrate and not worry about pain during games, according to court documents.

Kenney reportedly hypnotized Wesley McKinley (pictured) on the day he committed suicide.

“We are satisfied with the overall outcome”, they couple said in a statement, “although this is a very hollow victory”.

They said they took action to make sure it never happens again.

“He altered the underdeveloped brains of teenagers, and they all ended up dead because of it”, Mallard added. He was sentenced to one year of probation. In 2013, he was pressured to give up his teaching license for good. He told the Herald-Tribune that the families are still grieving and are unhappy with Kenney’s lack of punishment.

“The thing that is the most disappointing to them is he never apologized, never admitted wrongdoing and is now living comfortably in retirement in North Carolina with his pension”. During that time, he was prohibited from practicing therapeutic hypnosis without a license.

Freeman apparently found the hypnotic therapy so helpful that he started learning how to perform self-hypnosis from Kenney.

On March 15, 2011, Freeman was driving back home from a painful visit to the dentist, and his girlfriend was in the vehicle with him. His girlfriend says a unusual look came over his face and he veered off the interstate. According to one of McKinley’s friends, McKinley would sometimes have trouble remembering his name when he got on the bus after sessions. Lyle said, on the day McKinley hanged himself, he asked Lyle to punch him in the face.

“I would say that he was in a distant phase”. Kenney did not charge for the numerous sessions with Casey, Wilson said. She killed herself when the scores did not increase.

The families of three schoolchildren who died after being hypnotised by their headteacher are to receive nearly £400,000 in compensation.

They added it may also be illegal because he did not hold a license. Kenney, who was reassigned to an administrative position at the Sarasota school district, was not licensed to perform hypnosis and engaged in the activity during school hours illegally.