South Bend schools pay woman $1.4 million in sex abuse case
SOUTH BEND — The South Bend Community School Corp. has agreed to pay a woman $1.4 million to settle a lawsuit over a former employee's sexual misconduct with the woman when she was a 15-year-old high school student.
The woman was seeking more than $20 million in her lawsuit against the school corporation.
The case centered on Stephen A. Rokop, a former Washington High School paraprofessional and freshman boy's basketball coach who had an affair with the former student during the 2009-2010 school year.
After the girl reported the affair, Rokop, then 27, was charged and later pleaded guilty to felony counts of sexual misconduct with a minor and child seduction. He was sentenced in 2011 to six years in prison. He was released from prison in July 2013 but remains on Indiana's sex offender registry until July 2023.
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