CRESCENT CITY (CA)
Del Norte Triplicate
September 1, 2018
By Jessica Cejnar
A former student at the Crescent City Seventh-day Adventist Christian School is speaking out about her alleged abuse at the hands of a teacher who was convicted in 2016 of two counts of raping and molesting two children in Sequim, Washington.
Somerset Morgan was 10 years old and in the fifth grade when she became Douglas John Allison’s student at the Crescent City Seventh-day Adventist School in 2010. In an email to the Triplicate, Morgan, who currently lives in Salem, Oregon said Allison also lived in the same apartment complex, just up the road from her family.
Allison pleaded guilty in 2016 to molesting two students in the classroom while he was a principal and teacher at Mountain View Christian School in Sequim. He was sentenced to 26.5 years in prison, according to a civil complaint filed in court against the Western Washington Corporation of Seventh Day Adventists.
The lawsuit names Allison and was filed in King County, Washington on behalf of the parents of a student who was 10 years old when Allison assaulted them. The lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial in October, Mischelle Davis, director of operations and communications for Seattle-based Davis Law Group, told the Triplicate in July.
The complaint also cites investigations by the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office into two reports that Allison had put his hands down a student’s pants while he was a teacher in Crescent City.
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