Richard Wolfgram, another former student, says the same teacher victimized him as well.
“It was very painful for me. I didn’t tell anybody at the time. I didn’t tell my family,” he said.
The two men are joining with at least four other former students in filing a lawsuit against that teacher, identified in the suit as David Miller, and against Lake Forest High School.
They say that they brought the accusations to the board’s attention years ago, but the accusations were not acted upon.
“It’s shocking to me, who would think a teacher is going to have sex with a minor? Who would think that, but it happens,” attorney Ian Alexander said.
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This is the theater building at Lake Forest High School that formerly was named for David Miller, one of two former teachers named in lawsuits filed Friday accusing them of sexual abusing students and the school of failing to do anything about them.
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In two federal lawsuits filed Friday, Lake Forest High School faces accusations that two former teachers sexually abused students.
The suits were filed in Chicago by seven former students against the school and Lake Forest Community High School District 115. One also names former Lake Forest High School driver’s education teacher Cynthia Martin, and the other names former teacher David Miller as defendants.
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