A instructor convicted of sexually abusing a 14-year-old pupil stored a "Top 10" record of engaging pupils, legal professionals for the sufferer have claimed.

The legal professionals, who're representing the sufferer, now 27, in authorized motion towards the instructor, the West Virginia faculty and its former principal, say they concern paedophile Ronald Paul Harris, 63, might have focused many extra pupils.

Harris, who was a historical past instructor and women' basketball coach at Oak Glen Middle School in Hancock County, is serving a 10- to 20-year jail sentence after he pleaded responsible in September to sexual abuse by an individual able of belief. As a part of a plea deal, 5 different felony costs have been dropped. 

In her lawsuit, his sufferer, recognized solely as EH, alleges that the college district and former principal David Smith "turned a blind eye" to the continuing abuse and failed of their responsibility to guard her.

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Her legal professionals stated that they had interviewed a witness, who allegedly stated it was "common knowledge" that Harris had masturbated a number of occasions on faculty grounds and stored a "Top 10" record of probably the most engaging college students. 

They stated they hope their shopper's "courage" evokes others abused by Harris to return ahead.

"This case is a parent’s worst nightmare," stated lawyer Mary Pat Statler.  

"To learn that your child was groomed and sexually abused by a teacher is beyond awful.

"It’s made much more horrible figuring out that the administrator on the time of the abuse was able to cease the abuse or forestall future cases of abuse and as a substitute turned a blind eye."

By the time the girl turned 14, Harris had expressed his romantic and sexual feelings for her, the lawsuit says.  He sexually abused her and performed a sex act while they were in a storage cupboard in a media room connected to his classroom.

Fox News reported that on one occasion, Smith, the middle school principal, "tried to achieve entry to Harris’s classroom when he was sexually abusing EH, however when he discovered the door to be locked, he merely ceased making an attempt and started strolling away, down the corridor," the lawsuit alleges. 

Afterward, EH, a high school pupil who was acting as a teacher's aide for Harris, allegedly called for the principal, who had a "temporary" conversation with Harris and the student, but nothing was done.

"Harris was profusely sweating, visibly and audibly nervous, and outwardly anxious, but Smith didn't handle both the locked door scenario or Harris’s extraordinarily odd, responsible conduct," the lawsuit alleges.

The survivor "spent the vast majority of her highschool profession in her bed room, alone, and stayed away from social gatherings on the faculty due to the abuse," based on the lawsuit.