The former D.C. Public Schools teacher who reportedly impregnated a student also sexually abused four other students in the 1970s and 1980s, according to court records. D.C. special education student Ayanna Blue, now age 20, claims in a civil lawsuit that the city school officials knew about her sexual relationship with teacher Robert Weismiller, but did nothing to stop it.
In an amended complaint filed Thursday, Blue’s attorney says four other women in other area school districts had sexual relationships with Weismiller.
Weismiller had sex with a 16-year-old student at Gwynn Park High School, where he was the girl’s gym and driver’s education teacher, from 1976 to 1978, the complaint says. In 1976, the complaint alleges, he also drove a 17-year-old student to a motel where they had sex.
Then, in 1984, Weismiller sexually assaulted two eighth-graders at Fred Lynn Middle School in Prince William County, resulting a lawsuit against school officials in 1986 and Weismiller’s firing, according to the complaint.
Briant Coleman, a spokesman for Prince George’s County Public Schools, said Thursday evening he couldn’t verify Weismiller’s employment with the district. Ken Blackstone, spokesman for Prince William schools, said he couldn’t confirm the statements in the complaint.
Weismiller couldn’t be reached. No lawyer is listed for him in court records.
Scott Gilbert, Blue’s attorney, said the four women came forward after the lawsuit was filed against D.C. school officials last September.
“Their testimony reaffirms the fact that D.C. was negligent in its hiring of Robert Weismiller,” Gilbert said.
The suit says Blue was an 18-year-old student at the Transition Academy at Shadd when she began having sex with Weismiller in November 2008. The instructor drove her home from school and the two had sex in his car, the complaint says. A paternity test indicates there is a 99.99 percent probability Weismiller is the father of her daughter, who was born in November 2009, according to court documents.
DCPS began an investigation after learning of Blue’s pregnancy. Several teachers and aides reported that they would see the pair alone in his classroom.
The D.C. Attorney General’s Office, which is representing the city and school district, declined to comment. In a motion to dismiss the suit, lawyers say the school looked into the matter when it learned Blue was pregnant and the complaint “identifies no DCPS official who had actual knowledge of the sexual encounters before that time and failed to respond.”
