KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A former student in the Blue Valley Unified School District has filed a civil lawsuit against the school district for neglecting to take action against a teacher’s inappropriate behavior.
The lawsuit states former theater teacher Jeremy Riggs began grooming the former student in the spring of 2018 during her junior year at Blue Valley High School. It also claims Riggs used his position of power “to isolate, groom and engage in sexually inappropriate contact with students.”
The former student was sexually assaulted by Riggs in October 2018 at the Johnson County, Kansas, school after building hours, per the lawsuit…