Chicago Injury Lawsuit Accuses Private School of Ignoring Alleged Sexual Abuse Incidents Involving Math Teacher
A former Chicago Hope Academy student is suing the school for personal injury. The boy, an unnamed minor and an athlete, started attending the school, located on the West Side, in 2005.
Per his Chicago child sex abuse lawsuit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, the boy is accusing Kathryn Vail-Wesley, his former math teacher, of showering him with affection and attention in private and in public beginning in 2008.
The boy was 16 at the time and his Chicago injuries to minor complaint contends that his math teacher would hug him and touch him regularly and invite him to her residence. He claims she would send him secret letters and messages and engage in private phone calls with him to discuss her sexual and personal histories. He says she propositioned, noting that she wanted to bring his “chocolate skin” and her “vanilla skin” together.
From August – October 2008, the boy says that he was sexually involved with Vail-Wesley and that the incidents occurred in school, the chapel, and in other locations on the school’s campus.
Their sexual relationship came to light after Vail-Wesley’s husband, who also teaches at the school, found the plaintiff and his wife engaged in sexual misconduct in a school classroom. Mr. Wesley assaulted the boy and the school blamed the teenager for disrupting Vail-Wesley’s career and marriage. The plaintiff says the school told him to either withdraw is enrollment or they would expel him.
Vail-Wesley has been charged with sexual assault involving a minor because of her alleged involvement with the plaintiff.
The Chicago injury lawsuit says the plaintiff is the victim of the purposeful infliction of emotional trauma, wanton misconduct, negligence, and breach of fiduciary duty by the school. The complaint contends that the other school staffers should have noticed thatA former Chicago Hope Academy student is suing the school for personal injury. The boy, an unnamed minor and an athlete, started attending the school, located on the West Side, in 2005.
Per his Chicago child sex abuse lawsuit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, the boy is accusing Kathryn Vail-Wesley, his former math teacher, of showering him with affection and attention in private and in public beginning in 2008.
The boy was 16 at the time and his Chicago injuries to minor complaint contends that his math teacher would hug him and touch him regularly and invite him to her residence. He claims she would send him secret letters and messages and engage in private phone calls with him to discuss her sexual and personal histories. He says she propositioned, noting that she wanted to bring his “chocolate skin” and her “vanilla skin” together.
From August – October 2008, the boy says that he was sexually involved with Vail-Wesley and that the incidents occurred in school, the chapel, and in other locations on the school’s campus.
Their sexual relationship came to light after Vail-Wesley’s husband, who also teaches at the school, found the plaintiff and his wife engaged in sexual misconduct in a school classroom. Mr. Wesley assaulted the boy and the school blamed the teenager for disrupting Vail-Wesley’s career and marriage. The plaintiff says the school told him to either withdraw is enrollment or they would expel him.
The Chicago injury lawsuit says the plaintiff is the victim of the purposeful infliction of emotional trauma, wanton misconduct, negligence, and breach of fiduciary duty by the school. The complaint contends that the other school staffers should have noticed that Vail-Wesley was sexually abusing the boy. The lawsuit accuses the school of creating a culture that allows certain students and teachers to socialize.
Suit demands damages for alleged abuse, Chicago Journal, August 26, 2009
Former student sues Chicago Hope Academy after sexual abuse, WBBM, August 21, 2009
Related Web Resources:
Chicago Hope Academy
Student Allegedly Molested, Then Expelled, NBC Chicago, January 15, 2009
