Police have launched an investigation into a High School principal who hypnotised three students who later died.
George Kenney was suspended from his job after he admitted hypnotising a 16-year-old boy who a day later committed suicide.
But it has since emerged he hypnotised another student who killed herself and a 16-year-old who died in a car crash days after seeing the principal for the private session.
Investigators with the North Port Police and Florida Department of Health have launched a joint investigation into the activities of Kenney.
It follows a report by school chiefs who found that he had lied to officials about hypnotism sessions and defied three separate orders to stop the practice.
An investigation by officials at the North Port High School following the April suicide of of Wesley McKinley uncovered other students who had come under the principal’s influence
He is alleged to have hypnotised 17-year-old Brittany Palumbo five months before she killed herself on May 4 and had hypnosis sessions with 16-year-old Marcus Freeman six days before he died in a car wreck on March 15. All three were students at his school.
He first told police he never hypnotised the girl but later admitted he had lied.
Kenney, who has been suspended since April, has denied any wrongdoing.
