9th-Grader Drops Suit Against Her Christian School
by Jim Brown
January 19, 2006
(AgapePress) - - The family of a lesbian student who was asked to withdraw from a Christian high school in Georgia because of her sexual immorality has dismissed its one-million-dollar lawsuit against the school.
Fourteen-year-old Jessica Bradley had sued Covenant Christian Academy in Loganville, claiming the school invaded her privacy by expelling her for kissing another minor girl while off campus at a sleepover. But it turns out the ninth-grader was asked to leave the school for more than just a same-sex kiss.
According to Matthew Moffett, an attorney for the school, Bradley admitted to school officials that she had engaged in sexual immorality -- which is prohibited in the student handbook.
"She admitted to a sexual relationship with another student," Moffett explains. "That is a violation of school rules that are in writing, that are distributed to students and their parents, and which students and parents sign in agreement to abide by."
The attorney says those rules prohibiting sexual immorality apply both on and off campus. "It's stated very clearly that [violating those rules] can result in expulsion," he adds.
Consequently, says Moffett, there was no basis for a lawsuit. "After this student confessed to the sexual relationship with another student ... the school asked the student to withdraw -- and she did," he says.
Moffett says he was notified of the dismissal pleading by the girl's attorney on Tuesday.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
