Opinion ID: 712940
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Julie McCarter

Text: 11 Beginning in the early spring of 1991, the McCarter family changed their residence several times in connection with Mr. McCarter's new employment in Atlanta, Georgia. Julie apparently moved back and forth, but eventually stayed in Germantown with her grandparents, and later, in the late summer of 1991, returned to live with her parents when they moved back to Germantown. Because of Julie's brief residence in Atlanta, however, she needed to make a special application in order to be allowed to play soccer for Germantown. It appears that Leventhal in some way impeded the application, telling the soccer team captain that he was holding the ... papers and would send them in when [he] was ready. It further appears that Julie was only allowed to play after her mother went to Leventhal and beg[ged]. Leventhal told Julie that he would let her back on the team, but she would have to 'kiss his ass' for the rest of the season. Her parents also had to promise not to complain any more about his conduct. 12 The latter demand appears to have arisen from Mr. McCarter's complaints, beginning in August 1990, to Principal Chism about Leventhal's conduct as a coach. Specifically, he express[ed] [his] concern over the way Leventhal treated the girls. [He] made specific reference to [Leventhal's] sexual language, his verbal abuse and treatment. He told both Principal Chism and Superintendent Anderson, as well as an unnamed School Board official, about Leventhal not keeping his hands to himself when dealing with these girls. 13 In September 1991, Mrs. McCarter wrote to one Mr. Hayslip, who is in charge of athletics in the school system but is not a party to this suit, regarding Leventhal's behavior. Mrs. McCarter's letter detailed the verbal abuse Leventhal inflicted on the girls, and specified that the girls are afraid of him. On one occasion, Leventhal told Julie that her father was an asshole and a liar. The letter also detailed Leventhal's practice of calling Julie, and other girls at home, and play[ing] mind games by accusing them of not truly wishing to play for him. The McCarters claim that they conveyed the same information verbally to Superintendent Anderson and Principal Chism on several occasions. 14 Finally, the complaint contains an allegation that Leventhal placed his hands between [Julie's] breasts and fondled her buttocks on unspecified dates, and also secured duplicate keys to her room while on road trips for the soccer team. 15 The School Board, through its President, filed an affidavit stating that it had never been informed of any allegations of sexual harassment with regard to Julie. Superintendent Anderson's affidavit states that, although he was aware that Julie was not on the soccer team, at no time did she or her parents ever inform [him] that they believed their daughter was being sexually harassed or that she had been improperly touched. Finally, Principal Chism's affidavit states that David McCarter never complained to me that his daughter had been mistreated by Dr. Gary Leventhal or that there had been any sexual harassment by Dr. Gary Leventhal.