A suit filed successful national tribunal accuses the Clark County School District of failing to support a 13-year-old erstwhile pupil from a inferior precocious schoolhouse mathematics teacher accused of intersexual maltreatment and grooming.
The miss and her parent said successful a ailment filed Thursday successful U.S. District Court of Nevada that Brian Conway “cultivated an inappropriate and manipulative relationship” with the miss from August 2025 to January of this twelvemonth portion she attended Lawrence Junior High School successful Las Vegas, wherever Conway taught.
The miss and her parent are identified successful the ailment utilizing initials, and the Las Vegas Review-Journal does not typically place victims successful intersexual misconduct cases without their consent.
The filing of Thursday’s ailment follows Conway’s February arrest, aft constabulary said helium received kid intersexual maltreatment materials from a 13-year-old student. According to the complaint, Conway was arrested aft the girl’s household moved to different authorities and her parent discovered explicit messages and photographs connected the girl’s phone, prompting the pistillate to alert police.
Conway was indicted connected Feb. 19 and faces charges including usage of a insignificant nether the property of 14 successful producing kid intersexual maltreatment material, luring children oregon mentally sick persons with the usage of exertion with the intent to prosecute successful intersexual conduct, possession of ocular presumption depicting intersexual behaviour of a kid and lewdness with a kid nether the property of 14, according to Clark County District Court records.
David Kiebler, an lawyer representing the miss and her mother, said successful a Monday telephone interrogation his clients anticipation their suit volition pb to argumentation changes astatine CCSD.
“The fixes they privation are simple,” Kiebler said. “When thing similar this is alleged to person happened, telephone the parents, bid the unit to admit this benignant of behavior, ticker the cameras and analyse erstwhile thing similar this is happening.”
The suit names CCSD, Superintendent Jhone Ebert, Lawrence Junior High Principal Allen Yee and Conway arsenic defendants.
Conway, 49, remains jailed astatine the Clark County Detention Center, online records show. Conway declined a jailhouse interrogation request, a Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson said connected Monday.
A CCSD spokesperson said successful a connection that the territory does not remark connected pending litigation. The spokesperson said Conway was fired successful February, and Yee antecedently testified that Conway started moving astatine the territory July 31, 2025, according to District Court records.
Teacher ‘cultivated’ inappropriate, manipulative relationship
Beginning past August, “Conway cultivated an inappropriate and manipulative narration with Plaintiff by inviting her to walk luncheon periods and clip aft schoolhouse successful his classroom, ostensibly for tutoring,” the ailment said.
The girl, according to the lawsuit, was often precocious to people pursuing luncheon owed to spending luncheon clip with Conway. Conway “repeatedly” wrote the miss notes to excuse her tardiness.
The suit says Conway utilized Instagram and the encrypted messaging exertion Signal to pass with the miss and had entree to her phone’s existent location. Conway besides saved the girl’s interaction successful his telephone arsenic “Mi Amor,” the ailment said, which means “My Love” successful Spanish.
“Conway specifically directed the miss to usage Signal for privacy,” the ailment said. “The communications rapidly escalated to sexually explicit content, with Conway and Plaintiff exchanging nude photographs and sexually explicit videos.”
Conway expressed romanticist and intersexual feelings toward the girl, calling her favored names and giving her gifts that included a golden necklace and a hoodie, the suit said.
The suit claims Conway engaged successful escalating carnal intersexual interaction with the miss portion connected campus, including a clip erstwhile helium touched her connected apical of and underneath her covering and kissed her.
The narration betwixt the miss and Conway besides drew attraction from astatine slightest 1 schoolhouse official, according to the complaint.
“Conway admitted to Plaintiff that the school’s Vice Principal had warned him to halt spending truthful overmuch clip unsocial with Plaintiff, and that helium could get successful trouble,” the ailment said.
According to the complaint, the vice principal’s informing demonstrated “actual, on-campus consciousness of the inappropriate relationship,” betwixt the miss and Conway but the girl’s parents were ne'er notified.
CCSD employees besides failed to monitor, reappraisal oregon enactment upon surveillance footage that would person shown Conway’s improper and escalating interaction with the girl, according to the complaint.
Suit: CCSD knew astir ‘systemic patterns of abuse’
The suit claims that CCSD had cognition of a “pervasive systemic signifier of intersexual maltreatment of students” by territory employees spanning respective years.
The ailment noted 2023 grounds from Clark County School District Police serviceman Matthew Caldwell, who told the Nevada Legislature that betwixt 13 and 15 CCSD unit are arrested each twelvemonth for suspected kid intersexual exploitation.
The filing besides cited respective examples successful caller years of CCSD employees being arrested, charged oregon convicted related to intersexual misconduct, and the support of settlements successful tribunal cases stemming from allegations of intersexual misconduct by territory staff.
Despite cognition of “systemic patterns of intersexual maltreatment by CCSD employees” Ebert deliberately chose not to instrumentality capable policies oregon instrumentality corrective enactment to support students, the suit states.
The suit alleges that CCSD’s “longstanding signifier of failing to support students from harm inflicted by teachers,” deprived the miss of her rights guaranteed nether the 14th Amendment.
The ailment besides accuses the territory of negligence and Conway of battery, which the suit says near the miss with physical, intelligence and affectional harm, including slump and anxiety, post-traumatic accent disorder. According to the filing, the miss has needed inpatient and outpatient intelligence wellness treatment, which has caused “substantial” disruptions to her schooling and life.
The defendants’ nonaccomplishment to support the girl, combined with “deliberate indifference” to a known signifier of worker intersexual misconduct, demonstrates a “reckless disregard” for the affectional well-being of students nether their care, the ailment states.
The miss and her parent are seeking much than $75,000 successful wide and compensatory damages, arsenic good arsenic punitive damages against Ebert, Yee and Conway and ineligible fees.
Contact Casey Harrison astatine charrison@reviewjournal.com. Follow @Casey_Harrison1 connected X.
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