A jury awarded a total of $102.5 million to two women who sued their local school district after they were both molested while they attended middle school by a popular music teacher years ago.
SAN JOSE – A jury awarded a total of $102.5 million to two women who sued their local school district after they were both molested by a popular music teacher years ago while they attended a San Jose middle school.
The two plaintiffs were students at Dartmouth Middle School when Neipp, a music teacher in his late 20s, began grooming them “by sending text messages, emails and regularly spending time alone with each of them in his classroom,” according to a statement from the plaintiffs’ attorneys.“This escalated to sexually suggestive remarks, holding their hands, and kissing and touching them while they each were alone on separate occasions in his classroom,” the statement read.
“The district did nothing to increase the supervision of Neipp or the students in response to these complaints and instead gave the music teacher tenure and recognition as its Teacher of the Year,” the statement read.
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