The mystery about the death of Claudio Mandia, a Battipaglia student who died in New York, in the college where he was studying, a few hours before turning 18was disbanded from the boy’s family.
No sudden illness, as had been hypothesized at first: in a statement, the parents explained that the boy, who had been attending the EF Academy of New York, committed suicide after being held, for over three days, in unattended solitary confinementas “punishment for class work”.
Claudio had been expelled because he allegedly copied an important assignmentnecessary to obtain the diploma IB, the International Baccalaureate, “Passport” to the best universities around the world. The measures that have been taken to punish him have been called “primitive”, and such as to have been “the direct cause of Claudio’s suicide while he was locked up in solitary confinementAccording to the family, who announced that they wanted to take action against the institute for the “unimaginable treatment” it reserved for the boy.
It is the practice ofAcademy isolate expelled students or suspended pending return to their families. The punished boys are not allowed to go out and usually remain in solitary confinement for a day, which is the time needed to organize the flight back home.
The psychological pressure of expulsion must have been unbearable for Claudio Mandia, who killed himself just hours before his parents joined him in the United States to celebrate his birthday with him. According to rumors, then, when the boy was found lifeless, the school would also put his sister in solitary confinement (who attends the same institute) without revealing what had happened until the arrival of the parents.
Even the detectives of the Mount Pleasant District Police, although the autopsy results have not yet arrived, confirmed the suicide and they have assured that investigations will continue to understand if there are responsibilities on the part of the school and if the boy has been induced to take his own life. The return of the body to Italy has been authorized, the funeral could take place in the next few days.
Source: Vanity Fair
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