WEST PALM BEACH (FL)
WPTV
September 17, 2020
By Peter Burke
[Includes copy of the lawsuit.]
School administration favored alleged abuser over 11-year-old girl because of family’s donor status, suit says
A lawsuit has been filed against All Saints Catholic School and the Diocese of Palm Beach, alleging that the school failed to protect an 11-year-old girl from repeated sexual abuse by another student in an unsupervised classroom on campus.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Palm Beach County circuit court, also names principal Jill Broz, claiming that she not only failed to protect the student, but engaged in a campaign of victim shaming that caused the child severe emotional distress.
According to the lawsuit, the girl “was subjected to sexual abuse on multiple occasions in a classroom at All Saints Catholic School” that took place “when classes were left unattended by the teacher assigned to the classroom and while no other adults were present to monitor for, intervene in and dissuade such abuse from occurring.”
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