KEOKUK, Iowa (AP) - A judge has awarded nearly $750,000 in damages to a woman who reported what she thought was abuse of a student at a Keokuk boarding school for troubled youths.
The Hawk Eye reports (https://bit.ly/2prn9w8) that the award was announced Monday for Cheyenne Jerred. She filed her whistleblower lawsuit against Midwest Academy in December 2015, saying she’d been fired because she’d reported the incident to the Iowa Human Resources Department. Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies subsequently executed search warrants at two Midwest Academy locations in Lee County. The academy closed shortly afterward.
Midwest Academy owner Ben Trane said Tuesday that Jerred was fired because she failed to report an alleged sexual assault and said the academy had followed procedure, reporting the same information within 10 minutes of getting it.
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Information from: The Hawk Eye, https://www.thehawkeye.com
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