


“In front of the entire cast, he made comments about her boobs being too big for the costume,” Wineland said. North Central Principal Evans Branigan, performing arts chair Rick Granlund, and choir director Michael Raunick are also named in the lawsuit.Īccording to the lawsuit, Shewell groomed female students using “unwelcome physical touching, verbal abuse, and inappropriate sexual situations” including making comments about their bodies.įormer North Central students Allie Wineland and Jamie Wann told WRTV in 2021 they witnessed Shewell make inappropriate remarks about female students' bodies. Schilling is one of four former female North Central High School students suing Washington Township schools, its leadership and Shewell. “He would say, ‘Hey jump off that platform, see if you hit your head.’" “He would heavily imply I should kill myself,” Schilling said. Schilling said Shewell also made comments implying she should commit suicide. “He would make varying comments about how I was ugly, untalented.” "Verbally I got targeted a lot,” Schilling said. Schilling said Shewell also verbally abused her.

“For some reason, Nathan Shewell decided he was going to full on body slam me with his entire body weight,” Schilling said in an interview with WRTV. She graduated from North Central High School in 2020 and did theatre under the direction of Nathan Shewell.
