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4012 DEPUBLISHED A special school with knowledge that a thirteen-year old student was bi-polar, had once been sexually abused, had sewn his fingers together with needle and thread, and had not taking his prescribed medicine may have owed him a duty to act reasonably to prevent him from leaving the campus, but did not owe such a duty to his mother and so could not be liable to her for negligent infliction of emotional distress she experienced as a result of his committing suicide after being sexually assaulted while AWOL from the school; a jury's determination that the boy was 1% at fault in the sexual assault that led him to commit suicide did not automatically preclude the conclusion that he suffered from an uncontrollable impulse to do so; the risk that a boy who left a school campus would be sexually assaulted by a stranger was no more foreseeable than the risk that any person will be sexually assaulted at any time, so his departure from the campus was not a proximate cause of the assault.CitationALLISON C v ADVANCED EDUCATION SVCS (Son's Suicide) 129 CA4 636 [See: EdC 56520, 49001; Tate v Canonica 180 CA2 898; Ann M v Pacific Plaza 6 C4 666, T/AT 2/94; Huggins v Longs 6 C4 124, T/AT 1/94]
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