Seattle Schools Community Forum

First up, the lawsuit brought by a former student of Seattle Schools who attended Queen Anne High in the late 60s. She alleges that a custodian and a teacher sexually abused her.  I had wondered out loud if there were some statute of limitations since this case was from so long ago. I found a helpful law office website that says this: If a survivor was abused as a child before that date and is now an adult over the age of 18, Washington’s statute gives them three years to file a civil childhood sexual abuse action from:The time of the act itself;     The time the survivor should have discovered that an injury or condition was caused by the act; The time the survivor discovered that the act caused the injuries or conditions for which they are suing.   The “act” can be the abuse itself or an organization’s failure to protect them from abuse. This means in Washington State, you can sue for childhood sexual abuse many years, or even decades, after the abuse occurred. Th...