Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Laura Stearns read a statement at a press conference at attorney Jeff Anderson's, at right, office after a Minneapolis jury found the Children's Theatre negligent in the sexual abuse of Stearns in the 1980s but did not award damages. The jury also found former Children's Theatre employee and restaurateur Jason McLean liable in the sexual and awarded his victim, Stearns, $3.68 million. Photographed in St. Paul, Minn., on Friday, February 1, 2019.
Several former students suing Children's Theatre Company for sexual abuse are calling for a boycott of the theater after the organization applied to have nearly $300,000 in court costs reimbursed after a lawsuit by one of the victims.
Laura Stearns is one of 17 plaintiffs who have filed suit against the CTC and its instructors since 2015, saying there was widespread sexual abuse at the Minneapolis theater in the 1970s and 1980s. In February, a civil jury found that the CTC was negligent in Stearns' case, but not liable, and did not have to pay damages. They ordered the man Stearns accused of the rape, Jason McLean, to pay her $3.68 million. McLean, she said, has likely fled to Mexico.
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