Wrongful Death v. Principal

http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2015/10/florida_school_district_settle.html

There is some weird s#!^ out there, and some of it results in lawsuits.  This one might be the weirdest I’ve read about, and will almost certainly become a Lifetime movie.

The gist: Principal hypnotizes children at his school – dozens over the years – and several of them commit suicide or die in hypnotic trances. Families bring claims, each family gets $200,000.

What. The. Hell?

So it may not be quite as sinister as it sounds.  Apparently he taught a psychology class and this was part of it.  He allegedly offered hypnosis as a study and/or performance aid, and several students who participated over the years had not (to date) offed themselves.

But still, the correlation is enough to raise eyebrows.

In 2009 he was ordered to limit his hypno-fun to his psych classes.  He was also charged criminally for practicing therapeutic hypnosis without a license and was fined and put on probation.

In the light most favorable to him, he’s a wacky dude who is just going the extra mile to help his students.  But in the darkest view, he’s a hypno-predator that can only be stopped by the X-Men.

They can find him in our fine state of North Carolina, where he is apparently living in retirement.