Jane Doe v. Logan County Board of Education

"A central purpose of law is to protect the weak from the strong and to compensate victims for injuries caused by carelessness and neglect. Unfortunately, when confronted by child abuse in the schools, courts often fail to fashion effective remedies." Todd A. DeMitchell, The Duty to Protect: Blackstone's Doctrine of In Loco Parentis: a Lens for Viewing the Sexual Abuse of Students , 2002 BYU Educ. & L.J. 17, 17 (2002) (attribution omitted). I concur in the Court's decision, including our finding that the petitioner's second assignment of error-that the circuit court failed to consider her…