Superintendents, principals and student coordinators at the Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District failed to handle multiple instances of sexual harassment and assaults going back at least 14 years, a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday afternoon alleges.
"When we're talking about systemic problems and actively trying to avoid doing what needs to be done under the law, it takes time for this stuff to come forward."
CHUH and the nine other defendants listed"failed to take prompt and effective steps to end the harassment and assaults," the complaint reads,"once notice of the misconduct had become sufficiently severe." And in one of the extreme cases, an 11-year-old girl was allegedly assaulted by an eighth grader in a production closet behind the Roxboro Elementary Auditorium. She was, the complaint claims, later coerced by a Roxboro counselor into admitting the closet sex was"consensual."
"I think part of that answer is that it takes time to realize that you're not the only one. Right?" he said."When we're talking about systemic problems and actively trying to avoid doing what needs to be done under the law, it takes time for this stuff to come forward."
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