
Soon after quitting her summer job as a lifeguard at Evanston’s public beaches, a teenage girl privately confronted one of her former managers about the “many f----- up things that happened” at work.
In an exchange of text messages in June 2020, the girl, then 17, told her much older manager “that the major concern with age for y’all is that you could get in trouble and not the fact that you’re taking advantage of kids.”