Claims stemming from a general contractor’s alleged negligent failure to discover its employee was a registered sex offender before he molested children in a construction trailer should be heard by a jury, a Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas judge has ruled.
Judge Dominick Motto determined that, even though officials with Just-Mark Construction Co. fired its construction superintendent after discovering he was a registered sex offender and children were reportedly at the construction site, questions of fact remained over whether the company should have looked into the superintendent’s sex-offender status earlier. The superintendent, Jerry Valecko, had admitted to sexually molesting three minor boys on the construction site after he was fired, Motto said.
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