More than 50 Rowan County High School students spent at least part of Tuesday on the school football field asking Principal Jordan Mann to resign or be fired. Last summer, former Rowan High teacher Andrew Zaheri received a 22-year prison sentence on child pornography and sexual abuse charges involving a minor student. Former student Jade Kelsey said the Louisville Courier-Journal’s coverage of a civil suit involving Mann shows he didn’t respond properly to multiple complaints about Zaheri.
“Given the timeline, for as many claims and reports that were made against Andrew Zaheri, by students, by even members of the city government, even other staff members.”
Jade said people are also upset over a third-party complaint by the Rowan school district alleging the student’s parents may have committed child neglect by allowing her to be home alone, where she allegedly had sex with Zaheri.
“To have been covered up this way and for her to have been blamed by the school and school board for the assault that took place against her, including her parents being accused of possibly being the reason this happened.”
Mann and the Rowan superintendent did not respond to WEKU’s request for comment.
