The mother of a Colorado teen allegedly seduced by a teacher said awakened school policy allowed school officials to ignore the red flag and helped teachers care for their vulnerable daughter for years. I said that.
An investigation by officers and schools alleges that 37-year-old Leann Kearney was engaged in a systematic campaign to alienate the girl from her parents and used school administrators to help.
The principal and others at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, were too happy to control the girl, pretending to help Carney “navigate her sexuality,” the mother claimed. It's there.
“This was grooming for years. Then she took her,” Mom said. “She took my child.”
February 14th, Principal I apologized to my family and staff. After public records revealed how Carney, now a social studies teacher, appeared to help the prey of minor students.
“This horrifying situation will bother me for the rest of my life and I deeply apologize for the pain this family has experienced,” Principal Scott Christie said in a letter.
The school then updated its child safety policy and it said staff would receive additional training on how to prevent similar situations from happening again, the letter said.
The apology came almost a year after the former teacher was told he had fled to Oregon with a student the moment he turned 18.
“She was 15 when she was in Kearney's class,” the mother of the girl who asked her not to name either her or her daughter, told the Post.
Since the teenagers entered Carney class as sophomores in 2018, the two have exchanged 24,000 text messages, spent dozens of hours on the phone, met secrets, and according to notes written by the teen, the girl He even kissed him while he was a minor. The post office looked into it, according to an investigation by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and the school district.
Kearney has the girl working at her planetary fitness gym and has her use a pickup truck. At one point, Carney's girlfriend abandoned her and she told investigators that her relationship with the young student was the point of competition, according to the research documents.
The mother alleges that Carney encouraged her daughter to file a fraud claim for federal government's “homeless youth” status.
When her future lover was only 15 years old, Kearney began asking her colleagues about the application process, records show.
Carney and her victims recruit her guidance counselor, principal and another teacher to help, and it's not safe for the teen to stay in a dangerous and abusive home and stay with their parents That's what I felt.
However, staff did not contact the parents themselves and did not check her stories – even with their younger brother who went to the same school and had the same guidance counselor.
In response to comment, the school featured the post in an open letter apologizing for the incident. He notified school authorities and said that Carney was in military deployment at the time and had not returned to school.
When the counselor forwarded the application documents to district officials, she specifically asked them not to contact the girl's parents, an internal email revealed.
However, despite the girl's mother unaware of her homeless claims, she became wise to a “special” relationship with Carney. She asked the teacher not to contact her daughter again, but Carney never responded, continuing to text and called the girl, who was 17 years old.
Finally, Mom brought the problem before Principal Christie. Mom said Christy rejected the red flag and claimed that Kearney simply had a special interest in “helping children navigate sexuality.”
As to why officials placed the girl's parents in the dark: The state's trans student protection policy has driven a rift between parents and educators, first said Lindsay Datko of Advocacy Jeffco Kids.
“Transgender Equal Opportunity Policy – before we fight for two years to change it – they say that if students say it's something they want, they'll exclude parents from the transition process.” Datko explained. “It instilled a secret culture.”
In a letter on February 14th, Christie admitted that “appropriate procedures were not followed” for the Girl's Homeless Youth Application, but he didn't dispel the mother's concerns and warned the district's Title IX coordinator. However, the investigation revealed this. The district legal team was not notified.
He also said that if she hadn't resigned first, Carney would have been fired.
The state eventually stripped Kearney of her education license last December.
But by then, Carney had already fled to Oregon with the girl. The girl is currently an adult, but is only half the age of Keeny.
“What a lead [sheriff’s] Investigators said it would be like that until they realized she was in an abusive situation,” the mother said.
She added: “This was an intentional, calculated plot.”
Multiple attempts to reach Kearney have failed.
