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The director of Lawrence County Children & Youth Services filed a defamation lawsuit Monday over a GoFundMe page that accuses him of abusing his family.
John Bout, who was named director of the agency in 2019, filed the complaint in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court against Jennifer Lybarger, an adjunct teacher at Pittsburgh’s Creative and Performing Arts magnet school, and her husband, Roger Lybarger.
It accuses the couple of making false accusations against him and then sending them to his bosses the Lawrence County commissioners in an attempt to get him fired.