Former Dunbar Career Academy student sues Chicago Board of Education, alleging it failed to protect him from sexual abuse by a security guard: ‘I’ll never be the same’

When the teenager was asked if he wanted to share a statement at a court hearing for a former security guard at Dunbar Vocational Career Academy who pled guilty to sexually assaulting him when he was a 15-year-old student, he worried that he wouldn’t be able to express his emotions in detail using his voice. So, instead, he wrote a poem — an “alternative route,” he called it. “From poor self esteem to no sleep, you brought all of this upon me,” the poem said. “Please don’t take me out of another classroom. I hope you feel the deceit, and […]