Family sues Juan Diego Catholic High School after student says she was raped on school trip

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Family sues Juan Diego Catholic High School after student says she was raped on school trip

A family is suing Juan Diego Catholic High school, the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City and a former Juan Diego faculty member, saying a chaperon of a school-sponsored trip dismissed a sexual assault as something that "happens all the time."

According to court documents filed Wednesday in 3rd District Court, a female faculty member chaperoned the trip to Europe in June 2015 and didn't alert police when a student reported that she had been raped and held against her will at a hotel in Germany.
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hen the student told the faculty member about the attack, the chaperon dismissed the claims, according to court documents, and instead told the student to prepare for the bus to the airport. The student brought up the assault again at the airport, and the faculty member allegedly said, "Unfortunately, this kind of thing happens all the time."
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The diocese and Juan Diego are included in the lawsuit, the suit states, for not sending more than one chaperon, for not properly training the chaperon they sent and for not "earnestly [addressing] the situation" when the faculty member remained employed at the school.

The student's parents reported the incident to Principal Galey Colosimo, who allegedly told them the faculty member's employment contract prevented him from firing her. When school resumed in August 2015, she temporarily taught one of the student's classes, according to documents.

The woman no longer works for Juan Diego, according to a Facebook page that appears to belong to her.