A member of Seneca Valley High School’s 2018 junior varsity football team says in a lawsuit that teammates raped him in an unsupervised locker room and school officials didn’t do enough to prevent the attack. The allegations were made in a civil suit filed in March in Montgomery County Circuit Court on behalf of the student’s family.
The player says in the lawsuit that he was raped on Sept. 17, 2018 – about one month before four football players at Damascus High School were sexually assaulted by their teammates. The Damascus attack also allegedly happened in an unsupervised locker room...
“What we understand is that the alleged victim did not cooperate with law enforcement and therefore no further action was taken through the criminal system,” he said.
ReplyDeleteEven when the alleged victim does cooperate they often don’t take action for arcane reasons.
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ReplyDeleteThe board says it is also subject to sovereign immunity under state law. The difference, however, is the board could be subject to $400,000 in damages “per occurrence.”