Father Sues The Prestigious Brentwood School for Improper Conduct in Alleged Cover-up of 12-Year-Old Girl's Sexual Battery and Retaliation Scheme.News Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2000 The Brentwood School Brentwood School is the name of some notable schools:
The suit was filed by Robert Mann
Founding member and first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet for 52 years, American Robert Mann (1920-) is also a composer, conductor and mentor to younger generations of string musicians. , the father of the 12-year-old female victim. On Nov. 10, 1999, Mann's daughter immediately and properly reported the incident of sexual battery perpetrated by a fellow student. The complaint states that the father of the victim, Mann, learned about the incident eight days later upon his return from a business trip. At that time, he learned that the incident was never reported to either parent of the child, the police or the Department of Children's Services as mandated by California law. The complaint further alleges that, as well as the Brentwood School's responsibility for its failure to report the battery to the proper authorities, defendants Hunter Temple (Headmaster) and Stefanie Knutson (Middle School Director) committed mutual acts of Negligence, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. and Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress The tort of negligent infliction of emotional distress (NIED) is a controversial legal theory and is not accepted in many United States jurisdictions. The underlying concept is that one has a legal duty to use reasonable care to avoid causing emotional distress to another by failing to enforce the School's prescribed policies, known to all parents, concerning sexual harassment/misconduct. This includes immediate notification to the proper authorities, and, most importantly, a NO-RETALIATION policy to student or parent. The complaint also alleges that the Headmaster and the Middle School Director caused severe damage to the father/daughter relationship. This was accomplished by positioning the daughter as a buffer between her father and defendants in an effort to curtail prospective litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. . The complaint goes on to allege that defendants caused severe emotional distress emotional distress n. an increasingly popular basis for a claim of damages in lawsuits for injury due to the negligence or intentional acts of another. Originally damages for emotional distress were only awardable in conjunction with damages for actual physical harm. by conducting interviews with the daughter on two separate occasions without the presence of her parents in an attempt to abort (1) To exit a function or application without saving any data that has been changed. (2) To stop a transmission. (programming) abort - To terminate a program or process abnormally and usually suddenly, with or without diagnostic information. the father's efforts to investigate and call attention to the manner in which the incident was handled. Andrea M. Tytell, attorney for Mann, stated the following in her Demand for Resignation of (Headmaster and Director)(Exhibit B) ..., "... (the principals) conduct in investigating ... this incident was covert, manipulative and seriously damaging to the father daughter relationship ... Ms. Knutson (Director) was highly effective in positioning (daughter) against her father in an effort to thwart his efforts to properly investigate ... the incident ... (She) violated the school's own policy against retaliation ... Hunter Temple's (Headmaster) statement to Mr. Mann berating him in a demeaning de·mean 1 tr.v. de·meaned, de·mean·ing, de·means To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner: demeaned themselves well in class. and condescending manner for `making a big deal over nothing' ... (well) Mr. Mann wants you (Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. Brentwood School) to know that his children's safety and the safety of other children attending Brentwood School is a `big deal.'" Financial damages are unspecified at the present time. Robert Mann v. Brentwood School et al., Case No. SC060560 Superior Court of The State of California for the County of Los Angeles-Santa Monica |
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