Catholic High School Boys Sexually Harass Teacher By Taking Photos Up Her Skirt

A group of boys at a California Catholic high school played a game to see who could take the best pictures up their teachers' skirts, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by one teacher.

The boys sexually harassed Kimberly Bohnert for over a year, taking pictures and videos up her skirt and sharing the images with others at the school, biology teacher Kimberly Bohnert claims, NBC Bay Area reported. At least three other female teachers at the all-boys school were also targeted.

"Every time I see a student now walking down the halls, I think, 'Has that kid seen my video?' " Bohnert told the station. " 'What photos have they seen? Could that kid describe my private area to me?' And those thoughts go through my head, and it's traumatic."

Since then several boys have been either expelled or suspended in relation to the alleged sexual harassment at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo.

But Bohnert claims in her lawsuit that the school's "boys will be boys" attitude allowed the harassment to continue when the school first learned about sexually explicit images drawn in the boy's bathroom in February 2012, the Contra Costa Times reported.

Then in November of that year, the school found sexually explicit tweets where Bohnert was the subject, but again nothing was done, the teacher told the newspaper.

It wasn't until last May when a student notified school administrators about the upskirt photos when something was done. Bohnert asked others students if it was true.

"They go, 'Yeah, Ms. B, we've seen an upskirt photo of you. In fact, we've seen a lot of them, and they've been going around for awhile" Bohnert told NBC Bay Area.

Six students were expelled and six others were suspended. San Mateo prosecutors investigated the situation, but it is not clear what charges were brought against the minors.

Bohnert said that before she returns to teaching, she wants the school to guarantee other teachers wont be victimized. Bohnert believes her lawsuit, filed in San Francisco County Court, will make sure it never happens again, she told the station.