A victim of sexual assault at the hands of a staffer at a St. George school for troubled youth has sued the school in civil court for allegedly failing to protect him from the abuse.
The lawsuit was filed against Red Rock Canyon School — a psychiatric residential treatment center for adolescents — and its subsidiaries Thursday. It seeks damages to be determined at trial.
The lawsuit alleges an employee at the school, Diarra Fields, was 27 years old in the summer of 2012 when he engaged in sexual activity with a 16-year-old boy on school property multiple times.