A Floyd County man filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Floyd County Board of Education for actions he believes directly led to the molestation of his 14-year-old daughter in 2008.
Paul Stevens filed the complaint in Floyd County Superior Court against the five-member board based on what he calls recklessness when contracting with a cab company to transport students to and from a Floyd County school facility.
Ernesto Alvarado Guzman, 35, of 8 Lindsey Drive, was contracted through a cab company by the school board to transport four students to and from school. Guzman was arrested in December 2008 after he allegedly drove Stevens’ daughter to Chattooga County for the purposes of having sexual intercourse with her, according to a 2009 Floyd County indictment.
Guzman was supposed to take four students home from the Floyd County alternative school on Morrison Campground Road to a connecting bus.
Superintendent Lynn Plunkett said Thursday she can’t talk about the lawsuit.
According to the Floyd County indictment, Guzman took the girl across county lines where he purchased alcohol for the two of them. The lawsuit states Guzman then lured the girl into a Summerville motel room and molested her.
Guzman was arrested in Chattooga County and charged with child molestation.
According to the Floyd County District Attorney’s Office, Guzman was charged in Floyd County with furnishing alcohol to a minor, interfering with custody and enticing a child for indecent purposes. However, because Guzman was in the U.S. illegally, he was taken into federal custody on Dec. 8, 2008, immediately after his arrests.
Guzman was tried in federal court on an illegal re-entry into the U.S. and sentenced on May 28 of this year to serve two years in prison and three on supervised release.
The 2009 Floyd County charges were placed on the dead docket and the Chattooga County charges are still pending.
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