A Bellevue student says he went from loving school to being afraid to go. He says false allegations and the harassment that followed are the reasons why.
BELLEVUE, Wash. — At Newport High, one student said he will no longer be quiet.
"I am not swapping school districts. I'm not going to avoid the problem,” he said.
His family is filing a lawsuit against the Bellevue School District. The student is a minor and asked that we only refer to him by his initials, C.S.A. With his parents by his side on Wednesday, he explained what happened in 2021 after a breakup with his girlfriend.
"It ended naturally, pretty quickly,” he said.
According to C.S.A, what followed was harassment on campus. He brought allegations to the school about one incident where he said his ex-girlfriend, who was also a student, smeared ketchup on his car and hit him. When she was confronted by administrators, he said she made her own allegations.
"Something along the lines of me pushing her or hitting her,” he said.
He calls that allegation false. A complaint filed in King County Superior Court on Wednesday states several independent investigations by the school and police reached that same conclusion.
"The first one proved that I was innocent. The second one proved that I was innocent and that she was guilty of harassment and bullying,” he said.
C.S.A. said from there it only escalated. The false allegations were printed in a school newsletter, posters went up saying he hits girls, and on November 19, 2021,...
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