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Lawsuit filed against Jefferson City Public Schools

The Missouri River cuts through Jefferson City and the rest of mid-Missouri.
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The Missouri River cuts through Jefferson City and the rest of mid-Missouri.

A federal lawsuit accuses the Jefferson City school district and two administrators of not doing enough to prevent a band teacher from having an affair with a student.

The band teacher, Christopher Knehans, pleaded guilty in 2012 to two felony counts of sexual contact with a student.

The Jefferson City News-Tribune reported Tuesday the lawsuit alleges that high school principal Paul Dodson and assistant principal Tammy Ridgeway were warned several times that Knehans and the student were involved. It alleges that the administrators did not intervene to stop the relationship.

Knehans is also named in the lawsuit.

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