I’m a survivor of sexual abuse by a former teacher at Lake Dallas ISD in Texas. I was in elementary school. This teacher abused students over 37 years, across seven schools in three states (TX, LA, AR). More than 30 victims have come forward, and there's a civil lawsuit pending. Also this teacher was placed on the child maltreatment registry for the girls he abused in the mid 80s. Each school this teacher was at brushed every allegation under the rug. They either allowed him to continue teaching, pay off his contract, or let him go at the end of the school year.

This teacher was never my teacher but was a bus aid on my bus. When one incident occurred with this teacher, my mom demanded his removal. However the (director of transportation) ignored my mom's request and still allowed him to be on my bus.

So when doing my own digging, I wanted to understand how the district handled him, so I filed a public records request. Here's what I learned:

The district claims no investigative, disciplinary, or internal records exist. Their email servers were decommissioned in 2021, and they kept no certificates of destruction, vendor contracts, logs, or chain-of-custody documentation. Basically, decades of records that could show how the district responded or didn't to this teacher's behavior are gone. Completely.

Makes me think that they deleted the email servers right when I filed the FOIA to hid their tracks. Since there is no evidence of them destroying it and when it was destroyed.

After one bus incident happened, my mom demanded to have a meeting with the superintendent and the teacher. In that meeting things were said . One thing that was said was that my mom stated that she heard about this teacher kissing other students from other parents The superintendents response was that he saw no issue with him kissing students because he did the same thing… Im not sure what happened after that meeting but later on my mom wrote a letter to the school, she clearly stated that under no circumstances that he should be allowed on my bus. However they ignored my mom’s letter and he continued to be on my bus.

It wasn’t until I got older I started to remember my abuse again since I tried to burry it. I did my own digging to see where this teacher ended up. I eventually found his son on facebook and reached out to him. He reached back out to me stating that he heard about me along with many other girls. He explained to me that he tried to get his dad out of teaching and even went as far as going to the department of education in Arkansas with a letter that a few girls wrote explaining there abuse regarding this teacher. One girl didn’t want her statement in writing and rather be called. However no one ever called her.

I decided to go to the police and write a report against him. After 20 days go by after reporting him nothing was being done. The teacher was still teaching at the school where he was at in Arkansas. I completely lost it. I decided to take matters into my own hands and write a post about him on social media. From then on over 30 girls some who are now women messaged me saying there were also abused/harassed by this teacher. The school he was at held a protest demanding his removal. Only to find out that the school placed him on paid administrative leave before retiring him and his complicit wife. And that was it. I’ve been fighting for nearly 4 years to get justice and keep getting turned down. I don’t know what else to do. I felt like all of this is one big conspiracy but I will not stop trying to expose this story. We need justice.