school board to pay over $3M to students molested by teacher -- 12 years later

BOCA RATON, Fla. (CBS12) — The Palm Beach County school board is about to pay four students more than $3.5-million 12 years after they claimed their teacher molested them inside Coral Sunset Elementary School.

Four girls, who were third graders at the time, said their teacher Blake Sinrod inappropriately touched them.

One of the victims told police at the time that Sinrod put his hands on her private parts and placed her hand on his...

...Now over a decade later, the school board is set to vote to settle the lawsuit for millions.

Court documents from February show the school board deployed a defense it claims to use often, known as comparative negligence.

Writing in court filings indicate the “plaintiffs were old enough to appreciate the consequences of their own actions and to be held accountable for them.” It went on to say that the “plaintiffs conducted themselves in a careless and negligent manner and such negligence was a contributing and or the sole proximate cause of their injuries and damages.”...

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