Wyoming teacher, 31, charged with suicide of 11-year-old boy after she let him go to the bathroom alone despite his threats to hang himself, pleads not guilty to child endangerment charges

A Wyoming teacher accused of leaving an 11-year-old boy unattended at school and contributing to his suicide pleaded not guilty to child endangerment charges.

Amelia Giordano, 31, a music teacher at Carpenter Elementary school, was charged last month in connection with the suicide death of 11-year-old Paul Pine in January.

She appeared in Cheyenne Circuit Court along with her attorney, Mary Ames, on Thursday morning.

Giordano faces a felony count of child endangerment, punishable by up to one year in prison and $1,000 in fines.

The judge allowed her to be released on her own admission.

According to the Cowboy State Daily, she will appear at a planning conference on Nov. 2 and is not allowed any contact with the boy’s family.

Giordano was charged after she allowed Pine, a child known to have suicidal idealizations in the past, to use the bathroom alone.

It was revealed that Pine was left unattended in the bathroom for at least 17 minutes, despite his threats to hang himself there.

Teachers had been instructed to supervise the child when he used the toilets.

Pine hanged himself in the bathroom of Carpenter Elementary on January 9, just a month before his 12th birthday.

Pine, who had academic problems at school, had suicidal thoughts that he shared with his family.

His mother said that because he fell behind in reading, he was often singled out by school teachers, according to the Gillette News Record.

Last October, Pine told his family that he had a plan to commit suicide, specifically in his school bathroom.

After telling his mother, she took her son to the emergency room at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, where he was admitted for inpatient treatment and missed a week of school.

His parents then spent weeks trying countless methods to get their son the help he needed.

Pine’s family and his school reportedly had a plan to instruct teachers not to let students go to the bathroom unsupervised.

Paul’s mother, Chandel Pine, believes the school has let him down by not following proper procedure.

The family were able to obtain video of the incident, where they found Giordano and another teacher peeking through the boys’ bathroom door several times over the course of 17 minutes without intervening.

Only then did the principal of the school enter the bathroom to find Paul.

The warden performed CPR until Paul was airlifted to the hospital.

“So a child, who had a safety plan and had to start an IEP, went missing for 17 minutes,” Chandel said at the time, according to the Gillette News Record.

“He was sunny, his imagination was limitless,” Pine told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle at the time.

“I heard a lot of people say, ‘To know him was to love him.’ He was athletic, he did every sport he could. I mean, he just lit up a room,” she added.

A new CDC report, released in August, has revealed that the suicide rate in the US is at an all-time high.

More Americans committed suicide in the past year than ever before, according to national data.

Figures released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that 49,500 adults in the US will commit suicide by 2022, driven by access to guns and increased depression.

The data suggests that suicides are now more common in the US than at any time since World War II.

This week, a Utah school reached a $2 million settlement with the family of a 10-year-old who committed suicide two years ago after being horribly bullied.

Davis School District, which runs Foxboro Elementary School, agreed to present Izzy Tichenor’s relatives with the lump sum after it was approved by the Utah legislature.

The figure was significantly lower than the $14 million the family sought last year in a lawsuit alleging the child was bullied, abused, harassed and barred from activities because she was “female, learning disabled, poor, homeless and black.” used to be.