Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine, Part 1: Victims Share Experiences Amid Probe of Suspended School Official

“It could have been worse,” Suzie said in a call with the Source Thursday, recalling an incident with then E. Benjamin Oliver Elementary teacher Clifton Boyd. She said it happened around 2012, while she was completing community service on campus. Stopping by to say hello, she found herself alone with him for the first time.

She described what happened next as an involuntary hug that “felt like he was trying to keep me in the room longer.”

“He had his chest against my chest, his hands on my body, and his penis against my leg,” she said, remembering her immediate discomfort.

Suzie said she reported the incident in a meeting with the principal at the time, along with another male administrator. She said the principal encouraged her to press charges, and was surprised when the male administrator present remarked, “this is not the first time I heard something like this about him.” Suzie said she heard nothing more afterward and let it go as she prepared to leave for college. Up to that point, Boyd had treated her, she said, like a father figure — someone many students respected.

Some time later, Suzie brought up his name in a conversation with her sister Nan. She asked whether Nan thought Boyd might be a pedophile. “I noticed she tensed up,” Suzie recalled.