Controversy
In 1968, Joe Stillman, then a fifth-grade student at Prospect Park Elementary would make the first of many allegations of being molested by his then-science teacher, Edgar Friedrichs. The allegations by Stillman, and other boys went unheeded by both Robert Castle, the then-Prospect Park principal, and the ISD superintendent. The allegations would not become public until two decades later when Friedrichs went on trial in Fayette County, West Virginia first for sexual abuse of a 12-year-old boy, then later for sexual abuse, and murder of another 12-year-old boy.
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