Del. high school administrator requests dismissal of lawsuit alleging inappropriate meme of student

SUSSEX CO., Del. – A Sussex County school administrator who is being sued by a former student defended himself in court on Tuesday.

Sussex Central High School Principal Dr. Bradley Layfield is one of two administrators being sued by a former student regarding an altercation that took place back in May.

In court Tuesday morning, Layfield stated that unless the surveillance video is stopped and viewed in a frame to frame analysis, which was never done for any school employee that reviewed the fight on May 17th, the student’s anatomy can’t be viewed and was never seen by anyone that day. He claims that the student initiated a dangerous fight, and in the course of continuing the fight, caused her breast to be exposed briefly.

He also claims that by initiating said fight in front of a school security camera, the student assumed the risk that her anatomy would become exposed and be recorded by the camera and subsequently seen by school employees charged with protecting the health and safety of the other students in the hallway at the time of the incident.

Layfield is requesting that the case be dismissed with costs and legal fees assessed to the plaintiff.