A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday detailed new allegations of sexual misconduct by a former Marlborough School teacher, including a reported history of sexual abuse of students at other Los Angeles-area private schools that were apparently ignored when he was hired at the Hancock Park all-girls school.
The lawsuit, filed by an unnamed 30-year-old former Marlborough student, alleges that the teacher initiated a yearlong sexual relationship with her in 2000, when she was 16.
The lawsuit also said that Marlborough ignored past allegations of sexual misconduct by Joseph Thomas Koetters at Polytechnic High School in Pasadena and Viewpoint School in Calabasas.
Marlborough failed to investigate complaints against the teacher or to alert authorities to possible abuse and stood by as Koetters preyed on at least two other students over more than a decade on campus, according to the lawsuit.
School officials also apparently helped him secure another teaching job rather than fire him and failed to alert Polytechnic High of the allegations of sexual misconduct before Koetters was rehired there in 2013, the woman said in the lawsuit.
“Because the matter is the subject of a criminal investigation and now in litigation, it would be inappropriate to comment at this time,” Marlborough spokeswoman Carly Rodriguez said in a statement. Read more...
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