Michael D. Williams - prison photo
_________________________________________________________________________New suit filed over sex abuse by former Wentzville music teacher
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 26, 2011
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ST. LOUIS • A former student of a Wentzville music teacher currently serving a 25-year prison term for sexually abusing students filed a federal civil suit this week in St. Louis, saying that she was also abused.
The former student, identified only as "Mary Doe" in the suit, was 11 when the alleged abuse happened in a classroom at Wentzville East Elementary School. She is now 28, suffering from severe psychiatric disorders that prevented her from discussing or even recalling the abuse, the suit says.
The lawsuit says that former music teacher Michael D. Williams molested and raped her multiple times in his classroom during lunch, and was even interrupted by another teacher the first time it happened.
School officials ignored parental complaints and failed to supervise Williams, the suit says.
In addition to Williams, the suit names the Wentzville R-IV School District, former principal Richard Beauchamp and the former teacher who interrupted, who is only partially identified in the suit. It asks for $11.5 million.
Williams, now 43, is currently in Missouri's Southeast Correctional Center after pleading guilty to four counts of first-degree statutory rape and 13 counts of first-degree statutory sodomy.
In 2004 as part of a different federal suit, Williams was ordered to pay $1 million to two victims and his wife, Becky Williams, was ordered to pay $325,000. Eight students reached confidential settlements with the district.
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