In January of 2017, 16-year-old Corey Walgren jumped from the roof of a parking garage near his Naperville, Illinois high school and died.
Just hours before his death, the honor student and athlete had been eating lunch with friends in the high school cafeteria when he was summoned to the Dean’s office. There, a Naperville police officer confronted him about recording a consensual sexual encounter with another 16-year-old.
The officer and the high school dean told the boy that he was under investigation for child pornography and might have to register as a sex offender. In the brief window between this conversation and Walgren’s mother’s arrival at the high school to pick him up, the teen slipped away and committed suicide.
A Teen Took His Life; Now His Family is Suing His School and the Police