Teacher Sa’d Students For 37 Years Across 3 States And 7 Schools Covered It Up.

Location: Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas.

Not sure if you all have any legal advice that could help me out with this, but I feel like this whole situation is part of a conspiracy and don’t know how to go about this.

This teacher sexually abused students over 37 years, across seven schools in three states (TX, LA, AR). More than 30 victims have come forward, and there's a civil lawsuit pending. Also this teacher was placed on the child maltreatment registry for the girls he abused in the mid 80s. Each school that this teacher was at either allowed the abuse to continue, paid out his contract or let him go at the end of the year.

This teacher was never my teacher but was a bus aid on my bus. When one incident occurred with this teacher, my mom demanded his removal. However the (director of transportation) ignored my mom's request and still allowed him to be on my bus and the sexual abuse got worse. \*\*She still works at this school\*\*

So when doing my own digging, I wanted to understand how the district handled him, so I filed a public records request. Here's what I learned:

The district claims no investigative, disciplinary, or internal records exist.

Their email servers were decommissioned in 2021, and they kept no certificates of destruction, vendor contracts, logs, or chain-of-custody documentation.

Basically, decades of records that could show how the district responded or didn't to this teacher's behavior are gone. Completely. Makes me think that they deleted the email servers right when I filed the FOIA to hid their tracks.

**Trigger warning**

This is my story.

This teacher would always make the boys sit in the back of the bus and the girls in the front. Then, he would sit next to me and ask me personal questions like where I lived, when my parents got home, and if I had any dogs. I went ahead and answered every question he asked. Those questions quickly escalated to him inappropriately touching me.

One day, while I was being molested, I looked up and saw the lady bus driver just staring at me through the big rear view mirror without doing anything to stop him. Another day, he asked if he could walk me across the street to my house, and I told him no. He grabbed my hand and walked me anyway. When we got to my door, he told me to draw him a cute picture because he was going to come right back.

Once I walked in, I made sure to lock all the doors and frantically called my mom and my best friend’s brother. After a while, the teacher showed up at my door, peeking through the windows. I ran up the stairs and hid in a cabinet. After hiding for about an hour, I finally got the call from my best friend’s brother saying that he was here and to come out. I did so after having the courage to do so.

After that incident happened, my mom demanded to have a meeting with the superintendent and the teacher. In that meeting things were said . One thing that was said was that my mom stated that she heard about this teacher kissing other students from other parents The superintendents response was that he saw no issue with him kissing students because he did the same thing… Im not sure what happened after that meeting but later on my mom wrote a letter to the school, she clearly stated that under no circumstances should the teacher have any contact with me and asked that the letter be placed in his personnel file and shared with school administrators. The school acknowledged her concerns, but no meaningful action was taken. He was not removed, and they continued him to be on my bus.

I have memories being at the teachers house and being abused there. I don’t recall how I got there.But do remember his wife coming home and finding me. His wife was also a teacher at the same school district. She worked in special ed. I remember her helping me in the bathroom and telling me how sorry she was and that her husband was sick. But did nothing and told no one. Also have memories of being abused by multiple men at his house as well.

One day this teacher had a meeting with someone at the school. The teacher faked a heart attack after that meeting and left in an ambulance. After that, him and his wife moved to a different state.

It wasn’t until I got older I started to remember my abuse again since I tried to burry it. I did my own digging to see where this teacher ended up. I eventually found his son on facebook and reached out to him. He reached back out to me stating that he heard about me along with many other girls. He explained to me that he tried to get his dad out of teaching and even went as far as going to the department of education in Arkansas with a letter that a few girls wrote explaining there abuse regarding this teacher. One girl didn’t want her statement in writing and rather be called. However no one ever called her.

I decided to go to the police and write a report against him. After 20 days go by after reporting him nothing was being done. The teacher was still teaching at the school where he was at in Arkansas. I completely lost it. I decided to take matters into my own hands and write a post about him on social media. From then on over 30 girls some who are now women messaged me saying there were also abused/harassed by this teacher. The school he was at held a protest demanding his removal. Only to find out that the school placed him on paid administrative leave before retiring him and his wife. And that was it. I’ve been fighting for nearly 4 years to get justice and keep getting turned down. I don’t know what else to do. I felt like I have done all that I could do but still get turned down. But I won’t stop and hope one day we get justice.