Students athletes who were sexually assaulted at the school by volunteer weight room instructor Chad Curtis under the guise of rehabilitation, have settled their lawsuit against Lakewood Public Schools and Board of Education.
Lakewood Superintendent Randy Fleenor released a statement which said: “The Lakewood Public Schools has settled a lawsuit stemming from Chad Curtis’s sexual misconduct perpetrated against our former students.” The amount of the settlement was not released.
The students have not settled with Curtis, who is scheduled to go to trial in August if no agreement is reached. Curtis is serving seven to 15 years in prison after being convicted of six counts of criminal sexual conduct against female students by a Barry County Jury in August of 2013. He is representing himself in court.