Tutor Offered Her Daughter to Notre Dame Athletes for Sex: Lawsuit

The student’s lawsuit, filed Friday, alleges the tutor created “a sexually and racially hostile educational environment” as she bought condoms, arranged for hotel rooms, and then quizzed the athletes “about the nature, frequency, and quality of the sexual activities.”

The woman was fired two weeks ago, Notre Dame officials confirmed on Monday for the Associated Press.

Identified as John Doe in the lawsuit, the plaintiff also claims the tutor, identified as Jane Roe in the court filing, also tried to convert him to Catholicism and made “racially-charged comments about his sexual prowess and genitalia.”

He began attending Notre Dame in the fall of 2014 on a scholarship.

Through a statement to the Associated Press, university spokesman Paul Browne denied allegations raised in the lawsuit: “The allegations against the University of Notre Dame in the complaint are unfounded, as are gratuitous and unfounded references to ‘student athletes’ — an allegation that is nothing more than a cynical attempt to attract publicity.”

The plaintiff claims his sexual relationship with the tutor’s daughter began in spring 2015.

This relationship included, but is not limited to, the following behaviors: commanding, directing, encouraging, and convincing Plaintiff John Doe to engage in sexual relations with Defendant Jane Roe’s own daughter; arranging for sexual liaisons for Plaintiff John Doe; interrogating Plaintiff John Doe about the nature, frequency, and quality of the sexual activities he had with Defendant Jane Roe’s daughter; harassing and demeaning Plaintiff John Doe with racially-charged comments about his sexual prowess and genitalia; pressuring Plaintiff John Doe to remain in the sexual relationship against his will; providing lodging, transportation, hotel rooms, and condoms for sexual excursions across state lines; and engaging in threatening behavior towards Plaintiff John Doe as he attempted to end the sexual relationship with her daughter.

The student also claims the tutor specifically targeted “young, African-American, male students, including several academically coached members of the University’s football and basketball teams.”

The lawsuit, which names Notre Dame University and the tutor as defendants, asserts that administrators should have known of the woman’s actions and “failed to take appropriate action to remedy the racially and sexually hostile environment that was created at the University of Notre Dame ...”

The student alleges the tutor convinced him to seek mental health counseling as a means to “medicate” him and keep him “passive, cooperative and under control.” The lawsuit also claims he suffered academically and emotionally.

The university should have protected the plaintiff from the “hostile and sexually predatory behavior of its employee,” the lawsuit claims.

The student decided to sue after he brought the problem to the university’s attention but received no assistance, according to his attorney, Michael Misch, of the law firm Anderson, Agostino & Keller.

“The failure to respond and react reflects a double standard by some at the University, as the objectification would not have been tolerated under any other set of circumstances,” the plaintiff’s attorney said in a press release.

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