An 18-year-old Male High School graduate has filed a lawsuit against her former principal, claiming he invited other staff members to watch a surveillance tape of the teen and another student having sex in the school cafeteria in 2009.
The suit, filed in Jefferson Circuit Court on Thursday, alleges that while the teen and a male student had sex after school on Sept. 2, 2009, then-principal David Wilson viewed the encounter in his office on a monitor connected to a security camera.
The lawsuit, which also names former superintendent Sheldon Berman, claims Wilson did not attempt to stop the encounter, instead watching until it was over and then going to the cafeteria to get the students' names and send them home without contacting their parents.
The next day, according to the lawsuit, several Jefferson County Public Schools employees were called to Wilson's office, where he had five chairs set up facing a large projector screen. Wilson then played the video of the sexual encounter and "acted as an impromptu narrator of the scene, making sexual suggestive comments" and, at one point, slowing the video down during a "particularly racy moment," according to the suit.
Claims made in filing a lawsuit only present one side of the case. Wilson could not be reached for comment.
The teen is identified only by her initials in court records.
"This is something a student should never have to go through, particularly when her principal is the one doing it," said Michael Augustus, one of the teen's attorneys, adding that the main facts of the case are "largely uncontroverted."
Wilson retired in October 2009 after he was confronted with allegations that he showed staff members the tape and had also appeared at a school function with alcohol on his breath.
Wilson, who was hired by Jefferson County Public Schools in 1978 and had been principal at Male since 2000, was confronted by district officials about the allegations on Sept. 28, 2009.
According to documents provided in response to an open-records request filed by The Courier-Journal at the time, Male staff members reported several allegations of misconduct involving Wilson.
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