Dave Ring Represents Victim of Marlborough School Sexual Abuse Scandal
Partner Dave Ring of Taylor & Ring is representing one of the female victims in the Marlborough School sexual abuse scandal. In July 2014, Buzzfeed uncovered a sexual abuse scandal at Marlborough School, the oldest private all-girls school in Los Angeles, between a popular male English teacher, Dr. Koetters, and several female students.
One of the victims and her parents made the school aware of the teacher’s inappropriate behavior; however, the school did little to correct the issue. They removed Dr. Koetters as Chair of the English Department, required him to attend sexual harassment training, as well as removed the student from his class, but he remained employed at the school. In 2013, Dr. Koetters resigned from Marlborough under suspicious circumstances and went to teach at PolyTechnic School, another prestigious Los Angeles school. It wasn’t until BuzzFeed broke the story and requested a comment from the teacher that he resigned from PolyTechnic.
“I think there are a lot of missing details,” says Mr. Ring. “I don’t think Marlborough has done much at all to reach out to these victims and really address the issues of what went on over the course of the past 10 plus years.”
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