{"id":69272,"date":"2026-03-18T05:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/new-orleans-woman-sues-archdiocese-over-sons-suicide-after-he-was-expelled-from-school\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T05:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:55:22","slug":"new-orleans-woman-sues-archdiocese-over-sons-suicide-after-he-was-expelled-from-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/new-orleans-woman-sues-archdiocese-over-sons-suicide-after-he-was-expelled-from-school\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans woman sues archdiocese over son\u2019s suicide after he was expelled from school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sara Brannon alleges high school overseen by the Roman Catholic archdiocese was negligent in treatment of her 17-year-old son<\/p>\n<p>A suburban <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-orleans\">New Orleans<\/a> woman whose teenaged son died by suicide hours after his Catholic school expelled him in the wake of what he termed a shoving match with a campus bully is pursuing a wrongful death lawsuit against the local archdiocese.<\/p>\n<p>Sara Brannon contends that Rummel high school in Metairie, Louisiana, was negligent in its treatment of her son, 17-year-old Devon Shelton, and is therefore owed damages, including for mental anguish as well as physical pain and suffering.<\/p>\n<p><em>In the US, you can call or text the <a href=\"http:\/\/988lifeline.org\/\">988 Suicide &amp; Crisis Lifeline<\/a> at 988 or chat at <a href=\"https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/chat\/\">988lifeline.org<\/a>. In the UK, the youth suicide charity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.papyrus-uk.org\/\">Papyrus<\/a> can be contacted on 0800 068 4141 or email <a href=\"mailto:pat@papyrus-uk.org\">pat@papyrus-uk.org<\/a>, and in the UK and Ireland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samaritans.org\/\">Samaritans<\/a> can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email <a href=\"mailto:jo@samaritans.org\">jo@samaritans.org<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:jo@samaritans.ie\">jo@samaritans.ie<\/a>. In Australia, the crisis support service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeline.org.au\/\">Lifeline<\/a> is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.befrienders.org\/\">befrienders.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/18\/new-orleans-archdiocese-lawsuit-teen-suicide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sara Brannon alleges high school overseen by the Roman Catholic archdiocese was negligent in treatment of her 17-year-old son A suburban New Orleans woman whose teenaged son died by suicide hours after his Catholic school expelled him in the wake of what he termed a shoving match with a campus bully is pursuing a wrongful &#8230; <a title=\"New Orleans woman sues archdiocese over son\u2019s suicide after he was expelled from school\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/new-orleans-woman-sues-archdiocese-over-sons-suicide-after-he-was-expelled-from-school\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New Orleans woman sues archdiocese over son\u2019s suicide after he was expelled from school\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}