LOUISIANA
KSLA
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By Nick Lawton, Reporter
SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) –
Back in April, a Shreveport mother spoke out to us anonymously about her lawsuit against St. Mark’s Cathedral School for her son, identified as M.R.
We’ve now obtained documents showing a Louisiana Senator asking for a full state investigation into the school.
The mother’s lawsuit alleges her then 12-year-old son was expelled for his behavior with his cabin mates on a 2014 school field trip to Pine Cove.
The school claims the boy inappropriately touched the other boys, behavior his mother claims did not happen.
“He agreed that he and several other boys were playing these same type of games, just boy dormitory-type behavior, but he was the one that was told on,” his mother said during an April 7 interview.
The lawsuit alleges that even though the camp counselors denied M.R.’s inappropriate behavior and a local psychologist reported M.R. showed no signs of sexual deviant behavior, St. Mark’s still expelled him for “inappropriate touching of other students when not in the presence of adults.”
The mother is suing the school, asking if this sexual abuse did happen, why didn’t Head of School Dr. Chris Carter follow LA R.S. 14:403, the Mandatory Reporter Law?
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