Sexual Assault of a Minor

Our trial lawyer team was able to secure this judgment against a convicted child molester who repeatedly sexually assaulted a 5-year-old special needs child on a school bus. The child molester was employed as a school bus driver at the time of the incident and a lawsuit was brought against the bus driver and the school district. One of the incidents was captured on video before it was recorded over by the school district’s automated systems. The claims arose under federal law called section 1983 and Title IX against the school district. Although there was a history of sexual assaults on special needs school buses and cameras were installed to prevent more incidents, the school district implemented a deliberately indifferent policy to not monitor the camera feeds or review footage until (or if) the special needs victim cried out at some point, hopefully before their automated systems recorded over the evidence. The case against the school district is on appeal.