CHICAGO (IL)
NBC Chicago
[with video]
By Phil Rogers | Friday, Feb 28, 2014
Two months after a teacher filed suit against Hales Franciscan High School, saying she was fired for reporting a sex incident on school grounds against the administration’s wishes, a second teacher has now been fired, citing the same reasons.
Former Social Studies teacher Stephen Jennings is also suing Hales, saying he was fired last week because he reported the same girl’s allegations to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, as is required by law. Jennings said he went to DCFS at the girls’s request, after she said the school was not doing enough.
“I felt as a teacher, and a man of God, that it was my responsibility to protect the young ladies and support them,” he said.
In his suit, Jennings alleged then-principal Erica Brownfield had even warned the staff not to say anything about the allegations.
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