An explosive civil lawsuit has been filed in the case of a San Jose teacher who was recently arrested for sexual assault of a minor.
The lawsuit accuses Leigh High School teacher Shawn Thomas of getting a 15-year-old student pregnant and then forcing her to have an abortion decades ago. It also alleges a school dean helped cover it up and the dean was the teacher's wife.
“The abuse occurred on school grounds," she said."He impregnated her, forced her to have an abortion. It was so difficult for her to have to do that and make that decision at such a young age. But he insisted on it, to the point she had it at 16 weeks."NBC Bay Area talked with the alleged victim’s sister by phone on Thursday, who echoed details in a statement. At her request, NBC Bay Area did not use her name and obscured her voice.
The alleged victim’s story takes a strange twist. After the abortion, she decided to report it to a school dean she trusted, Sarah Thomas, even though the alleged victim knew Sarah Thomas was at the time Shawn Thomas’s wife.“It wasn’t obscure, it was clear as day," Cerri said."‘He’s having sex with me’ and the wife blamed her.
The Campbell Union High School District said in a statement that although the current leadership team was not at the district in 2003, they take"the allegations seriously and are deeply concerned."
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