MINNEAPOLIS — A former student is suing a Minnesota high school, saying it failed to provide a safe environment after he was sexually abused by a teacher while in his teens.

Cameron Clarkson says he was abused Gail Gagne when he was a 16-year-old high school student and football player at Cretin-Derham Hall in St. Paul. Gagne was 25 at the time and was working as a supervisor in the school’s weight room. She was fired and eventually convicted of having sex with a student.

Clarkson, who’s now 22 and a senior in college, tells WCCO-TV he decided to come forward so the public knows what happened.