A woman who ran over and killed a teenager is suing the dead 17-year-old boy for more than $1 million for “emotional trauma.”
Brandon Majewski died after being struck by an SUV while cycling with two friends in Toronto in 2012.
One of his friends was seriously injured in the incident.
Sharlene Simon, the driver of the vehicle, is now suing all three boys for the trauma she claims she has suffered since the incident.
Her decision has appalled Majewski’s family.
“I feel like someone kicked me in the stomach — I’m over the edge,” the dead teenager’s father, Derek, told the Toronto Sun.
Brandon’s mother Venetta said she was “in shock” after hearing the news.
“She killed my child and now she wants to profit from it? She says she is in pain? Tell her to look inside my head and she will see pain, she will see panic, she will see nightmares,” she told the Toronto Sun.
“In all of my years as a lawyer, I have never seen anyone sue a child that they killed. It’s beyond the pale. I just couldn’t bring myself to tell them on the phone,” family lawyer Brian Cameron said.
Simon, a mother-of-three, is suing for $1.2 million for trauma she says she experienced as a result of the accident.
She blames the boys for the accident, calling them “incompetent bicyclists.”