{"id":204411,"date":"2010-01-20T16:07:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T21:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=11419"},"modified":"2010-01-20T16:07:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T21:07:17","slug":"teen-sues-former-teacher-charged-with-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/204411","title":{"rendered":"Teen sues former teacher charged with sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A south suburban teen is suing a former teacher who is already charged criminally with sexually assaulting the boy.<\/p>\n

Claiming \u201cemotional distress, the teen \u2014 who identified himself only as \u201cJohn Doe\u201d \u2014 filed suit in Cook County Circuit on Tuesday against the Rich Township High School District 227 and former teacher Sarah L. Tolzien. He\u2019s seeking at least $50,000 for what the suit calls \u201cintentional infliction of severe emotional distress.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suit stems from November 2008 when the Rich South High School teacher, then 24, allegedly had sex twice with the boy, then 16. <\/span><\/p>\n

Tolzien resigned the following December after being placed on administrative leave.<\/p>\n

The Arlington Heights woman was charged criminally with felony sexual assault in connection with the case.<\/p>\n

Authorities said the sexual encounters happened Nov. 14 and 17, when Tolzien drove the boy home from school. Tolzien, a language arts teacher, also coached the boys varsity cross-country team, and the boy was a member of the team, police said.<\/p>\n

A school district official couldn\u2019t immediately be reached for comment, and a man who answered the phone at Tolzien\u2019s home said she wasn\u2019t available for comment.<\/p>\n

The teen\u2019s attorney said he\u2019s still in school but receiving counseling.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s trying to get on with his life but this is an incident that could have far-reaching consequences \u2014 beyond what he thinks now. He\u2019s very young,\u201d said Loop attorney Jeffrey S. Deutschman.<\/p>\n

Read the original article from Tribune News Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A south suburban teen is suing a former teacher who is already charged criminally with sexually assaulting the boy. Claiming \u201cemotional distress, the teen \u2014 who identified himself only as \u201cJohn Doe\u201d \u2014 filed suit in Cook County Circuit on Tuesday against the Rich Township High School District 227 and former teacher Sarah L. Tolzien. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}