TULSA (OK)
Joplin Globe
By Sheila Stogsdill
Special to the Globe
11/1/05
TULSA, Okla. - Two Delaware County teenagers filed suit Monday against a Jay church that they allege spread false rumors about them after they went to local authorities and reported that they were raped and sexually assaulted by a Jay school bus driver.
The lawsuit also accuses the Jay School District and administrators of failing to investigate or report allegations of sexual misconduct by William Allen Stroud, a former bus driver and maintenance worker for the district.
Named in the lawsuit are the Jay School District; Southside Church of Christ; Gary Brewster, the former assistant superintendent; Mike Seifried, the former principal of Jay High School; and Stroud.
The sex-discrimination lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Tulsa. It seeks unspecified damages.