The former Culver City High School student who alleges she was sexually assaulted by multiple football players ultimately moved to Chicago to find “respite” from the effects of being sexually assaulted, harassed and raped, according to her lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court a week ago today.
The lawsuit was filed by downtown L.A. attorney Jonati Yedidsion. According to the biography page on her firm’s website, Ms. Yedidsion is a “top female sexual abuse attorney.”
The lawsuit alleges: Negligent supervision of students on the part of the School District; negligence in hiring and training of school employees, also on the District’s part, and general negligence on the part of Jeremy Weaver, the two other alleged assailants and the District.
The complaint outlines abuses that occurred at the hands of student Mr. Weaver and two other unidentified upperclassmen. All three were football players, the lawsuit states.
“As starting players, assailants were in peak physical condition, extremely strong and physically intimidating,” the civil complaint said.
Mr. Weaver, the only charged and convicted suspect, and one of the other alleged assailants asked the girl to hang out in the school’s parking lot and listen to music when she was unexpectedly sexually assaulted and raped, according to the complaint.
She was soon forced to engage in sex acts with the help of the other unnamed attacker, says the suit.
“Throughout the next several days, defendants repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted (the young woman) on school grounds and during school hours,” the lawsuit says.
The threesome raped her, forced her to perform oral sex and other sex acts, then secretly videotaped the assaults and distributed the images “throughout the school to other students” while “spreading malicious rumors regarding (her) ‘sexual promiscuity,’” the lawsuit states.
The football players allegedly threatened the plaintiff if she reported it and harassed and intimated her afterward.
The victim reported her allegations to school officials, and she believed they told the boys, the lawsuit says. She suffered post-traumatic stress disorder among other emotional injuries.
The suit was filed on behalf of the student by her guardian, named only as “Tiffany T.”
