HOUSTON - The alleged victim of sex-trafficking by a high school cosmetology teacher has filed a lawsuit in Houston federal court against the Klein Independent School District.
Also named as defendants in the Feb. 7 case are Roger McGee and Kedria Grigsby, a son and mother who allegedly took advantage of three troubled teenagers by putting them up in a motel before turning them into prostitutes.
Gribsby, who was arrested in April, and McGee face criminal charges. The Jane Doe plaintiff said part of their plan was dosing her with alcohol and Oxycontin while pimping her out on Megapersonals.
"Defendants Grigsby and McGee set certain 'quotas' for Plaintiff, which dictated how much money Plaintiff would need to earn each day," the lawsuit says.
"At times, Plaintiff's quotas were well into the thousands of dollars, requiring her to perform sex acts on as many as 15-20 'johns' per night."
Doe's story begins in 2021, when, at 17 years old, she quit school on Nov. 4 after a school administrator noticed bruises on her arm. The following May, McGee texted Doe's mother to say he and Grigsby would take care of Doe now.
The defendants cut off communication between Doe and her family, threatening the mother that it would tip off authorities to warrants and open Department of Social Services investigations, the suit says.
McGee took explicit photographs of Doe and posted them to Megapersonals, the suit says, and promoted sexually explicit video chat sessions. Grigsby and McGee gave her condoms and a schedule for "dates" or "licks," it is alleged.
Grigsby herself drove Doe to various locations, like the Hotel Royale and Camelot Inn, the suit says. Grigsby also made hotel room reservations and scheduled Doe's appointments, Doe says.
"If Plaintiff questioned anything, complained about anything, disobeyed Grigsby and McGee, or otherwise showed signs of insubordination, Plaintiff would be subjected to violent acts of physical abuse, including numerous occasions where she was pistol-whipped, kicked, punched and severely beaten by Defendant McGee," the suit says.
"The physical punishments left Plaintiff bloodied, bruised and in fear for her life."
Grigsby and McGee recruited other dropouts and high-risk minors, the suit says. Doe was forced to train other girls on the operation, she says.
Doe was arrested in February 2023 for compelling prostitution. Twelve days later, her mother reported the trafficking by Grigsby and McGee, the suit says.
In suing Klein ISD, the suit says Doe's mother had reported the trafficking more than a year before Grigsby's arrest. The ISD is charged with violation of Title IX, arguing sex discrimination in the district's alleged refusal to investigate or intervene.
Klein ISD created an atmosphere "that tolerated sexual abuse," the suit says.
Doe is represented by Aysia Mayo-Gray and Jonathan Jackson of J Jackson Law Offices in Houston, plus Bakari Sellers of Strom Law Firm in Columbia, S.C.
Strom is a former U.S. Attorney also serving on the body in South Carolina that recommends judges to state lawmakers.