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“These victims went through years of abuse, which continues to impact them to this very day,” Dennis said.Ī civil trial had been set to begin Monday, but the case was settled this month. The statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse in Washington allows victims to seek compensation when they discover the abuse caused injury.
“… the District believes any such abusive conduct by staff towards any student is a breach of trust that is inexcusable.” “Due to very recent changes in the law in Washington State, a school district can be held strictly liable for sexual abuse of a student by any staff member at school … regardless of whether the District knew of any misconduct,” Runyon wrote. Washington school districts may have liability for acts by their employees on school grounds, including intentional sexual misconduct, according to the state law. In January, Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Paul Thompson ruled the Marysville School District violated the state’s Law Against Discrimination. “During the time that the student was attending school in the 1980s, and up to the commencement of a legal claim, the alleged staff misconduct was not disclosed to any school or District administrator,” district spokesperson Jodi Runyon wrote in an email to The Daily Herald. He was employed by the district until June 30. In early 2021, Hollstein was still serving as the athletic director at Marysville Getchell High School. Hollstein declined to speak about the allegations, Dennis said. They both accused Hollstein of grooming them. One other victim later came forward.īoth victims were members of the cheer team, said their attorney, Ashton K. One woman filed a lawsuit in March 2021 claiming she was “discriminated against because of her sex” and as a result was harmed physically and emotionally after being coerced into performing sexual acts. Her grade point average dropped from 3.5 in eighth grade to 0.33 in her second semester of tenth grade. I didn’t see her at all the events … she just wasn’t the same girl.” “And it just seemed in high school she just fizzled away in the strangest way. The student “was involved in everything in middle school and junior high,” the classmate said. After the alleged abuse ended, it was like the student “disappeared,” a former classmate and current district employee said during a Nov.