Parents of two legally blind female elementary students filed a federal lawsuit against two Detroit school districts and a vision specialist alleging they sexually abused their daughters in the school's library. No criminal charges have been filed.

The lawsuit filed on June 7 identifies the suburban school districts, Garden City and Livonia, plus officials from both districts. The District officials included in the case are accused of "failing to enact or provide training on proper policies regarding how minor students are to be left alone and unsupervised with adults."

Allegedly the two girls were victims of sexual assaults at Garden City's Douglas Elementary over two years, in 2018 and 2019. Court documents state the two victims and their families did not know one another. However, their almost identical accusations came to light once parents made the abuse claims of both girls.

The accused vision specialist worked for both school districts as a contracted employee. His job was to work with both girls on orientation and mobility to ensure their safety as legally blind students.

The lawsuit alleged that on October 9, 2018, the vision specialist fondled one of the student's breasts in a closed-off room with no windows at the Douglas Elementary School.

The legal documents claim that the following week, the vision specialist physically blocked the severely impaired vision of the same student with occluders, devices covering the eye.

In court papers, the elementary school girl said she felt his penis in her hand and told the vision specialist she was "uncomfortable." As noted in court papers, the vision specialist then removed the occluders, and the student saw him zip up his pants. The young girl didn't tell her mother until Christmas Day, December 25, 2020.

In December 2019 the court papers allege the vision specialist met with the second girl in the same room located in the Douglas Elementary School. The lawsuit states the specialist used occluders to cover the girl's eyes and that the specialist placed his penis in her hand and near her mouth.

Once again, the lawsuit states, the girl told the vision specials she was not comfortable, and he took off her occluders. She then said she saw him pulling up his pants and zipping them. The student told her mother, who contacted the third grader's teacher.

City police, with the assistance of Garden City Schools, investigated the incidents.

Sergeant Micah Hull of the Garden City Police department said the investigation is now under the auspices of the Wayne County prosecutor's office.

Attorney for the parents, Vern Johnson, said that the two legally blind girls, who did not know one another, have matching stories.

"Their stories are absolutely identical over a year apart," said Johnson.

Despite the lawsuit, the accused vision specialist is still listed as an employee on the Livonia district schools' website, though Garden City said they terminated their contract with the specialist.

Attorney Johnson said there should be specific information in the vision specialist's records regarding the two sexual abuse allegations. Currently, there is no mention of any sexual abuse allegations in his files.

"You've got to put this in people's files so the next school district will know," said Johnson. "He came here from the west side of the state, and we want to know if there are any victims over there who can give us any information."

Both girls suffer from severe visual conditions making them legally blind, including congenital glaucoma and other eye issues in one girl and oculocutaneous albinism in the other.