Clatsop County school district failed to stop teacher from repeated sexual abuse of student, suit alleges

Clatsop County Courthouse

David M. Brandon, now 46, was convicted last year in Clatsop County Courthouse on two counts each of third-degree rape and third-degree sodomy and one count of unlawful delivery of marijuana in connection with his encounters with a Jewell School student. He was sentenced to three months in jail. On April 9, his probation was revoked, and he was ordered to spend three years in prison.Randy L. Rasmussen/The Oregonian (file)

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A federal civil rights suit filed Monday against a public school district in Clatsop County alleges a former teacher engaged in repeated sexual abuse of a student starting when she was 14 and that the district did little to stop it.

Despite multiple complaints about the teacher “being too comfortable with kids” and a consultant’s warning that the teacher wasn’t safe to be around children at Jewell School, the district didn’t intervene but allowed the teacher, David Michael Brandon, to quietly resign and get a different teaching job with younger students at an elementary school, the suit alleges.

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