NORTH PORT, Fla. — The principal of North Port High School, George Kenney, hypnotized as many as 75 people at the school, including students and parents, as well as staff members and their children.
Kenney did not have the required permission from parents when he performed a hypnosis demonstration with 25 ROTC students in March 2010 when the group traveled to a competition in Orlando, the Herald-Tribune reports. Kenney also hypnotized the softball, volleyball and baseball teams, college athletes and adults in individual sessions at the school over a 3-year period.
Kenney received three verbal warnings to cease the practice, and later lied about hypnotizing Brittany Palumbo five months before her May 4 suicide. Two other students also died — one by suicide and one in a car crash — after being hypnotized by Kenney. These incidents were not related to the hypnosis.
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