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US principal accused of sexually abusing students “almost every day.”

US principal accused of sexually abusing students “almost every day.”

A federal lawsuit is being filed against a former Manhattan public school principal, accusing him of sexually abusing a student “almost every day” and calling her a “baby” and “princess.” The lawsuit alleges that Brett Kimmel, who now lives in Maryland, groped the student, forced her to perform oral sex and attempted to have sex with her shortly before her 18th birthday New York Post reported.

The court papers also alleged that the defendant allegedly “targeted” the girl when she was in eighth grade at Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School more than a decade ago.

Kimmel sent the victim multiple inappropriate text messages and emails daily during her freshman year of college and later asked her to send him shirtless selfies, she alleged in her April lawsuit in Manhattan federal court against Kimmel and the city’s Department of Education. The court papers continued that the messages didn’t stop even after the teen’s older sister confronted Kimmel about his crazy notes in the summer of 2012.

She claimed the principal drove her to and from school during her sophomore and junior years and molested her during car rides.

The woman alleged that her ongoing abuse was due to the Department of Education’s (DOE) “negligent oversight,” including a lack of training for staff and teachers to report suspicious behavior and ignoring students’ comments about the abuse.

According to city payroll records, the city schools special investigator had no reports on Kimmel, who earned $182,844 in the 2015 fiscal year and left the Department of Energy in the fall of that year.

Years after the abuse ended, the woman decided to file a lawsuit “to hold the abuser accountable so he can’t do this to someone else again,” her lawyer Julia Kuan told The Post.

Kuan noted that the woman had not reported the abuse to police at the time, but declined to elaborate due to client confidentiality concerns.

Court documents indicate she is seeking unspecified damages.

Kimmel, who now works as an educational consultant in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, denied the sexual abuse allegations through his attorney Alan Sash and asked for the case to be dismissed in court records.


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