HOUSTON (TX)
Click2Houston
[with video]
Author: Ryan Korsgard
HOUSTON –
A Houston family sued the Trinity Lutheran School claiming the school and its administrators failed to protect students as a teacher allowed students to correspond with a now convicted child molester.
“Just disbelief over the whole situation,” said the mother, who asked that her identity not be revealed.
She said her 10-year-old son was corresponding with Rickey Rea Rowlett while he was in jail. Last week, Rowlett was convicted of continuous sex abuse of a child under 14 years old.
“The school that I trusted to protect my child had sent his personal information out,” the boy’s mother said.
She said her son was one of a dozen students who started corresponding with Rowlett in December as a class pen-pal project at Trinity Lutheran School. She said the correspondence started without her permission.
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