Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Sentinel: Family sues MCPS for $3 million for teacher's sexual abuse

ROCKVILLE – A high school student and her mother are suing Montgomery County Public Schools for $3 million for the inappropriate and sexual actions of the student’s teacher, who was convicted of sexual abuse in June.
Potomac resident Richard Shemer, 51, who taught history at Albert Einstein High School, received a 20-year sentence for sex abuse of a minor with all but one year suspended. As of Sept. 25, the court released him to his home under electronic monitoring. He had exchanged a number of sexually inappropriate emails with his student, who plaintiff’s attorney Norman Schneider names as Jane Doe in the complaint...

...Schneider said the school allegedly had warning signs of Shemer’s inappropriate behavior.
“There were numerous people in the school who had complained about him and were told by the counseling staff that this is the way he is with everybody,” Schneider said. “Certainly Einstein’s administration knew that he was somebody who acted inappropriately at times and probably should have monitored him a little closer just on that basis.”
Shemer also allegedly sent many explicit emails from his MCPS email address or on school computers, according to Schneider...


6 comments:

  1. IF anyone thinks this is the first time this teacher has done this with a student your kidding yourself! He has been doing this for a while. All the county has to do is investigate this guy to find out the true nature of this man. You will find out he has done this with students, teachers, and parents. This is a sexual predator that needs to be investigated further to help his other victims.

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    1. Never happen they are worried about future lawsuits! How do we stop the teachers we trust with our children from abusing them? He was offering a sixteen year old drugs shouldn't that be a chargeable offense?

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    2. If you have information on a crime, please contact Montgomery County Police Department.

      If there are other victims they need to contact the police.

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  2. ". . . received a 20-year sentence for sex abuse of a minor with all but one year suspended."
    This amounts to forty lashes with a wet noodle.

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    1. The one year is being spent at home with an ankle bracelet and going to day job at golf course.

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    2. Wow a golf course job. Why didn't they just place him as a teacher? The young girl has to go to treatment battles drug and other issues while this guy laugh's it off with his golf buddies.

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