The district unconsciously helped students declare homeless. She is now able to move with a sexually groomed female teacher, says advocates, documents and relatives of the girl.
An unidentified teenager attended Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, the site of the infamous fatal massacre in 1999, a straight student on a swim team who allegedly had an inappropriate relationship with a social study teacher. Yes he was the captain. Probably as early as her sophomore year in 2018.
That year, the student told Jefferson County School District officials that he felt unsafe at home, helped him submit documents and asked him to be declared “an unaccompanied minor.” Group Jeffco Kids First.
The teenager asked her to take care of her teacher, Leann Kearney, district documents alleges.
But it was a trick: the girl had exchanged about 20,000 texts with Kearney and wrote a note in 2021 describing her “kiss.” , saw a record of phone calls revealing a hordes of texts.
The student's mother is first said to be suspicious after finding unaccompanied Minor documents under her daughter's bed.
According to a district survey, the mother brought the school's principal, Scott Christie a phone record and a disturbing note to Principal Scott Christie, who said she was “knowing the situation,” but said, “children.” He claimed he had a special interest in helping him navigate sexuality.
The school has even taken steps to keep the girl's mother in the dark, and emails from a teenage counselor ask the family not to let them know the situation.
“If my friend hadn't found the homeless paperwork under his bed, this would have remained sealed,” fellow family member Heather McCormick told the Post.
McCormick, whose daughter is a teenage sister and her best friend, said that the family's family life never held a red flag in terms of family problems.
“[My daughter] It always ends at their home. We go to church with them. There was never a single concern. They are just average middle class families,” she said. “but [the girl] The house wasn't safe and it sounded like the school didn't want to talk to his parents. ”
After getting a brush-off from the school, the girl's mother contacted advocacy groups and warned local media about cases and district documents.
But by then it was too late.
“It was just a few weeks ago [the student’s] It's my 18th birthday,” McCormick said. “At that point, she had already made her decision and never returned.”
She left the family as soon as she turned 18, but she temporarily moved with another teacher as Kearney was deployed by the National Guard, according to a district investigation. Ta.
As soon as Carney returned, she resigned and she and the teenager left together to Oregon, McCormick said.
The state eventually stripped Kearney of her education license. The revocation document, signed by the Attorney General, described her actions as “grooming.”
The girl's mother rarely communicates with her now, McCormick said.
district In a statement to CBS Colorado“I deeply regret how deeply this violation has had on their families.
“We have taken every step to remove this former employee from Jeffco and prevent her from working in another educational setting, but we recognize that this is almost uncomfort for our family,” he said at first. I told the outlet that I reported in the survey.
The district did not respond to requests for comment.
In this post, I was unable to find Kearney's working phone number and all of the listed numbers were disconnected.
