Flurry of Suits hit Fayette County

First, there was...

Former student sues Fayette schools
CASE ALLEGES SEX WITH TEACHER

A former student has filed a lawsuit against Fayette County Public Schools for allowing a sexual relationship to develop between her and a former teacher.

The plaintiff says in the suit, filed last week in Fayette Circuit Court, that Anthony J. Graves subjected her to a pattern of sexual, psychological and emotional abuse for two years. The plaintiff is seeking monetary judgment for damages and a jury trial.

Graves, who is named as a defendant in the lawsuit, met the student in 2002 when she was a student at Tates Creek Middle School, where he was a technology instructor. While she was a student, the lawsuit says, they spent time in class together during and outside of school hours. In 2004, when she was a freshman at Henry Clay High School, he initiated sexual contact, the lawsuit says...

Then...

Woman sues Fayette school officials
SUIT: THEY DID NOT PROTECT BULLIED DAUGHTER

A mother whose daughter was allegedly bullied for at least four months says Fayette County school officials failed to protect the middle school student, according to a lawsuit filed Friday.

LaFleesha Patton says in the lawsuit, which names Superintendent Stu Silberman and five other Fayette County Public Schools employees as defendants, that she notified school officials in January that her daughter, identified as Jane Doe in the suit, was verbally and physically bullied at Crawford Middle School to the extent that she needed psychiatric care.

According to the lawsuit, students repeatedly assaulted Patton's daughter while on school grounds. Those students also "cyber-bullied" the girl by making comments online that referred to her and Patton in "obscene, vile terms and contained defamatory language." ...

And another one, a little too close to home...

Former Teacher Faces More Charges

A former Fayette County school teacher is facing more legal trouble after allegations surfaced that he sexually abused several students.

A lawsuit was filed Monday on behalf of four mothers who say former Linlee Elementary teacher Kenneth Dunn, 51, took advantage of their young daughters.

Dunn is currently serving time in the Kentucky State Reformatory after pleading guilty last year to two counts of sexual abuse for an incident involving two children at his home. The Fayette County school board says those children were not students, but the suit filed Monday alleges that Dunn used his title as teacher to sexually molest the four young students.

The suit is asking for a jury trial, it's also asking for damages to be awarded to all four families involved.