It took three months of daily requests before they agreed to re-assign G.F. to another desk. The harassment had such a debilitating effect on LaShonda that she wrote a suicide note. Her tormentor eventually was charged with and pled guilty to sexual battery in a Georgia court. LaShonda Davis and G.F. were fifth-graders. If LaShonda had been a grown-up and her harassment had occurred in the workplace, her employer would have been liable.
Employers are liable whether the source of sexual harassment is a supervisor or a co-worker.
Boys also snapped the girls' bras, stuffed paper down their blouses, and cut their hair. G.F. This is a boy who eventually pled guilty to sexual battery, but the only thing the principal could think to do was to threaten him a little bit harder. It should not matter under the law whether LaShonda's tormentor was a peer or an adult. The psychological ramifications could not have been any worse if the principal had been the one initiating the harassment, as opposed to the one who condoned it. School officials at first said that Johnathan had violated the school's sexual harassment policy.