Legal Opinion
Doe v. St. Francis School District
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 10, 2012No. 12-1039PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This suit, by a 14-year-old eighth grader and his parents (whom we can ignore, and so we refer to the boy as the plaintiff), seeks to impose liability on the school district for sexual abuse by a 26-year-old female teacher, Kelly Sweet, no longer employed by the school. The plaintiff is of course not named “N.R. Doe” but is being permitted to litigate pseudonymously.
The suit alleges that the failure of the public school district (named “St. Francis” because it is in a town of that name' — it is not a parochial school) to prevent the abuse violated the plaintiffs rights…
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