The parents of students at Bessie Carmichael Elementary school in SoMa got a strange letter from then-principal Lawrence Gotanco in the spring of 2013.
“On Wednesday afternoon inappropriate behavior involving three students occurred on campus, and a video recording was made of this incident and shared with other students,” noted the letter.
Now, the vague language around the incident has been more clearly defined as a result of a lawsuit against San Francisco Unified School District.
The April 3 incident was a sexual assault that involved three 10-year-old boys, at least one of whom was a victim, according to the claims in a civil trial that began Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court.
The lawsuit filed against the school district by the guardian of one of the three boys says that another one of the boys sexually assaulted the victim, who was forced to “perform sexual acts.” The suit further alleges that the incident happened in Principal Gotanco’s office, and that he and other staff failed to protect the students in question when they left them alone.
According to the complaint, Gotanco and other staff “failed to provide reasonable security and protection” and they knew that the perpetrator did “constitute a risk to assault or abuse other students.”
The victim, now 12, no longer attends the school.
via SFUSD sued after alleged sexual assault in principal’s office.
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