Huron Valley parents file federal suit after substitute teacher sexual abuse case

Ten households and an alleged sufferer of the previous Huron Valley faculties Lengthy-term alternative trainer Timothy Daughtty filed a lawsuit on Monday within the American courtroom in Detroit.

Daughter, 61, was discovered responsible of six counts of second-degree legal sexual habits and sentenced to 10-15 years in jail in July 2025 for incidents that occurred in Spring Mills Elementary in Highland Township, the place he labored as a number trainer for Huron Valley.

The prices involved 10 college students between 9 and 11 years outdated and occurred in 2023 and 2024. Daughter had beforehand needed to take care of fees for legal sexual habits with a baby youthful than 13, which was later voluntarily rejected by the Oakland County Procurutor’s Workplace. A girl, now 20 years outdated, was the kid from that case and belongs to the households talked about as plaintiffs within the courtroom case.

Huron Valley -head inspector Paul Salah calls the lawsuit; Sarah Bentley, former Spring Mills Elementary Principal; Kelly Mattingly, social employee at Spring Mills; in addition to the Huron Valley Faculty District; Edustaff, the workforce that has utilized a contract with the district to offer a alternative trainer; And Daughter because the defendants.

In keeping with Johnson, the lawsuit will attempt to uncover what the district and Edustaff knew in regards to the previous of Daughter and why he was allowed to work with kids, regardless of earlier fees and steady complaints.

The lawsuit claims:

Namen and gross negligence by the Huron Valley Faculty District and Edustaff
Not reporting suspected baby abuse by obligatory reporters and others
Everlasting and lengthy -term psychological harm and injury to the youngsters and their households.

Huron Valley faculties issued a press release shortly after the press convention.

“The well being and security of our college students is our prime precedence, and we take that accountability very significantly,” mentioned the district. “Huron Valley Colleges needs to make sure the mother and father and households in our district that we stay totally dedicated to the effectively -being of every pupil underneath our care. Due to the continual courtroom instances, we can not touch upon this concern in the mean time.”