The heartbroken families of several girls who were allegedly abused by a pedophile piano teacher are suing a Texas private school for a ‘cover-up’.
Trent Muse, a former teacher at Trinity Valley High School in Fort Worth, is accused of sexually abusing 16 students ranging in age from six to 11 years old.
A lawsuit launched by the families on March 25 blasts Muse as a ‘serial pedophile who was left unmonitored, unsupervised, and alone behind a closed door with vulnerable children’ in the 2022-2023 academic year.
Trinity Valley, which charges just under $30,000 per year, is accused of ‘intentional concealment and ongoing cover-up of this widespread sexual abuse’ which ’caused injury to at least 16 children and likely more’.
Parents say Muse ‘masturbated in front of the students, touched their legs, chest, and genital areas, forced them to touch his penis, put his penis on them, and exposed his penis repeatedly to countless elementary-aged girls’ during ‘piano lessons’.
‘Muse even created sadistic ‘games’ for students in which he would reward students with ‘prizes’ after he coerced them into touching him and vice versa,’ the lawsuit reads.
‘In at least one instance, a child fought Muse, drawing blood, but that did not stop him. He continued to subject his young victims to abuse undeterred.’
The lawsuit claims that Trinity school staff ‘knew something was awry’ because one employee ‘witnessed a child crying while Muse physically forced her into piano lessons’.
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