Schools may be responsible for hiring decisions in the case of teachers’ sexual assault

A civil trial introduced by one of his minor victims in the best academy was rejected at the level of the district court and this decision was confirmed the Minnesota Court of Appeal, both courts that pronounced that the Charter School was protected, because the decisions of Employment are immune of responsibility.

The supreme court of the state overturned this, with Judge Paul, this wrote in his opinion of 36 pages that the court refused to compete that all employment decisions are protected from responsibility.

“The Supreme Court of Minnesota finally established that we chose to protect children from schools instead of predators,” said lawyer Jeff Anderson, in a press conference on Wednesday. “The growth of the brave survivors we are sitting with and we work every day to allow us to stay with them to do something to protect other children.”

The victim’s lawyers claimed that sexual assignment would not have happened if the best academy had done an adequate background search on Hjermstad, because if they had it, they would have discovered previous sexual assaults against him.

The school had to prove its decision not to obtain letters of recommendation for Hjermstad or to appoint their references was a policy decision. The Court has decided that the school had not succeeded in this obligation.

“The best documents of the Academy’s employment process suggest that reference and contact letters were needed,” writes this.