A former private school student who was thrown out as part of disciplinary action surrounding a female classmate's nude images sent via the school's Internet server won't be going back to the school. And he won’t be continuing a lawsuit against the school, either. His family settled with the institution for $200,000, and the school agreed to expunge his disciplinary records after next year.
St. Louis Country Day School expelled Matthew Beath and four other students over the incident, in which a girl then in ninth grade took nudes of herself and sent them to classmates on the school’s Net server, according to the Associated Press.
The girl also told school officials that Beath assaulted her sexually at a party, and Beath's parents sued the school a year later, charging the institution with invading Beath's privacy and defamation of character, the AP reported.
The charges were dropped, either by Beath's parents or the trial judge, with only a breach of contract allegation remaining for a trial that would have begun July 11 if the settlement hadn’t been reached.
The school also is said to have agreed to distribute a letter acknowledging "shortcomings" in the way it handled the original incident, according to the AP.
