A 28-year-old former math teacher and tennis coach in Charleston, South Carolina, allegedly forced a student to have sex with her multiple times, threatening to lower his grade if he did not comply, according to a lawsuit.
Jennifer Olajire-Aro
The suit, filed last week on behalf of the then 17-year-old male student and his mother, alleges that Burke High School teacher Jennifer Olajire-Aro blackmailed the teen into having sex with her — and when he eventually refused, she docked his grade from a 98 to an 89.
The suit, which claims negligence, is against Olajire-Aro’s employer the Charleston County School District. She is not named as a defendant. Olajire-Aro was arrested in December and charged with segxwal battery with a student. .
The student’s complaint argues that the district failed to properly provide him with a “safe, educational, and harassment-free environment to receive a high school education” and fostered “an environment which enabled [Olajire-Aro] to prey on the vulnerabilities of adolescent males.”
A district spokesman declined to comment on the lawsuit to PEOPLE as it is pending litigation. He said Olajire-Aro was hired by the district starting in 2017 and she was placed on leave on Dec. 18, the same day officials learned of the allegations.
She was fired in late January, according to the district spokesman.
Her attorney confirmed that Aro is married, with a 10-month-old baby girl, and that her husband is a surgeon at the Medical University of South Carolina.
The segxwal misconduct allegedly began in August 2017, when the teen was placed in Olajire-Aro’s math class.
“Immediately she singled him out and started offering to meet with him after class and treated him different,” Mark Peper, the attorney representing the teen and his mother. “I assume she picked on the weakest link or picked on the one she was most attracted to.”
Peper says a segxwal relationship between the teen and teacher allegedly started in early November with �
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