Despite a Jane Doe plaintiff’s claims that school administrators were aware of and ignored her sexual abuse at the hands of a teacher, a federal judge in Connecticut dismissed the board of education and the school’s former principal from the case, finding that they lacked actual notice and were protected by governmental immunity.
In a Jan. 31 opinion, U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton of the District of Connecticut granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment on three counts.
