Reporter's Notebook: Oconto Falls Grooming Scandal, Continuing Coverage Check-In, 15 Years Since Fukushima

Reporter's Notebook: Oconto Falls grooming scandal, Continuing Coverage Check-In, 15 years since Fukushima

Every week on Reporter’s Notebook, WTMJ’s Adam Roberts talks with members of the WTMJ newsroom, as well as reporters from newsrooms from around the state, to get the full picture when it comes to the stories they choose to tell. On this week’s episode: Three former students in Oconto Falls join a federal civil rights lawsuit accusing the northern Wisconsin school board of allowing a culture of grooming and sexual abuse to persist over a two-dec…

Federal complaint alleges ongoing sexual abuse in Oconto Falls School District

2 staff members have been charged so far A federal complaint filed Wednesday alleges Oconto Falls School District officials overlooked sexual abuse of students for 20 years. The 60-page complaint, filed in the U.S. Eastern District, alleges a pattern of abuse that includes grooming and sexual conduct by multiple staff members involving more than a dozen minor students at Oconto Falls High School between 2005 and 2025. The complaint was filed by t

Explosive Lawsuit Accuses Oconto Falls School District Of 'Condoning' Grooming & Sexual Abuse By 9 Teachers

The Oconto Falls School District was accused in a federal lawsuit of “fostering and condoning sexual abuse and grooming by discovering that at least nine different teachers…had engaged in grooming […]