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Lawsuit: Pittsburgh Public Schools should have known officer was abusing boys
Justin Merriman | Tribune-Review
Robert Lellock of Beltzhoover, a suspended city schools police officer, is brought into police headquarters on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012.
By Brian Bowling | Tribune-Review
April 15, 2015
Pittsburgh Public Schools and two former school officials should have noticed that former school police officer Robert Lellock was repeatedly taking boys out of classes to sexually assault them in a janitor's closet, one of Lellock's victims claims in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
“They were charged with the welfare and protection of the children entrusted to them, and they failed these children repeatedly and systematically by turning a blind eye to the obvious signs of abuse being perpetrated by defendant Lellock,” the lawsuit says.
The Tribune-Review doesn't name the victims of sexual assaults.
The man, now 29, says Lellock, 46, of Beltzhoover took him out of class more than two dozen times in the 1998-99 school year at Arthur J. Rooney Middle School in Brighton Heights. He did the same with up to 21 other boys that same year, the lawsuit says.
The victim claims Lellock wasn't authorized to remove students from class, and that should have led teachers and administrators to look into what he was doing.
“Not a single teacher reported him, or even questioned him. Not a single teacher made an inquiry to the office,” the lawsuit says. “This speaks of a failure of training and policy of an unbelievable and conscience shocking level.”
Rest of this story:
Lawsuit Pittsburgh Public Schools should have known officer was abusing boys TribLIVE
We should be asking why a federal judge would release the district and everyone except Lellock from another victim's lawsuit the previous year. Why would a federal judge cover the gross incompetence of those that allowed this to happen?
Justin Merriman | Tribune-Review
Robert Lellock of Beltzhoover, a suspended city schools police officer, is brought into police headquarters on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012.
By Brian Bowling | Tribune-Review
April 15, 2015
Pittsburgh Public Schools and two former school officials should have noticed that former school police officer Robert Lellock was repeatedly taking boys out of classes to sexually assault them in a janitor's closet, one of Lellock's victims claims in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
“They were charged with the welfare and protection of the children entrusted to them, and they failed these children repeatedly and systematically by turning a blind eye to the obvious signs of abuse being perpetrated by defendant Lellock,” the lawsuit says.
The Tribune-Review doesn't name the victims of sexual assaults.
The man, now 29, says Lellock, 46, of Beltzhoover took him out of class more than two dozen times in the 1998-99 school year at Arthur J. Rooney Middle School in Brighton Heights. He did the same with up to 21 other boys that same year, the lawsuit says.
The victim claims Lellock wasn't authorized to remove students from class, and that should have led teachers and administrators to look into what he was doing.
“Not a single teacher reported him, or even questioned him. Not a single teacher made an inquiry to the office,” the lawsuit says. “This speaks of a failure of training and policy of an unbelievable and conscience shocking level.”
Rest of this story:
Lawsuit Pittsburgh Public Schools should have known officer was abusing boys TribLIVE
We should be asking why a federal judge would release the district and everyone except Lellock from another victim's lawsuit the previous year. Why would a federal judge cover the gross incompetence of those that allowed this to happen?
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