A swimmer who may have been secretly recorded by her childhood coach has filed a lawsuit against him and three area school districts.

But the schools’ attorney believes she has no evidence the woman was videotaped by the coach while she was undressing.

Former Kokomo High School and Central Indiana Aquatics coach Brian Hindson, 41, secretly recorded girls younger than 18 undressing in the girls locker rooms at Kokomo and Westfield high schools.

He pleaded guilty last year to 16 counts of child pornography and was sentenced to 33 years in federal prison.

Hindson’s crimes were discovered after he sold a laptop on eBay in March 2006. The North Carolina buyers discovered several pornographic files left on the hard drive and contacted authorities. The case was forwarded to the Indianapolis division of the FBI in January 2008.

The 48-page suit, originally filed June 10 and moved to federal court June 18, sues Hindson, Central Indiana Aquatics, USA Swimming and the school districts of Westfield Washington, Kokomo-Center and Noblesville.

The Kokomo swimmer — who was identified only by her initials in the lawsuit — accuses the school districts of violating her rights and not protecting her and the other swimmers.

The suit doesn’t ask for a special amount of money, leaving it up to the court to decide.

Although the lawsuit claims Hindson began videotaping the girl in 1999 before her senior year of high school, the criminal complaint against Hindson lists only three videos he created, all of female minors taken in 2006 or later. The woman who filed the lawsuit is 27 years old, according to a swimming Web site, and would be too old to be one of the girls in the complaint.

The complaint states the three girls were taped at Kokomo Memorial Gym, but Hindson has admitted to taping girls at Westfield High School as well.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven DeBrota didn’t return a phone call seeking comment.

The plaintiff claims Hindson videotaped her undressing in the coach’s office at the school, but her complaint doesn’t say why she was changing there instead of the locker room.

Thomas Wheeler II, the attorney for the school districts, said the lawsuit had no merit.

“The stuff Hindson pled to only involved a two-year period,” Wheeler said. "We haven’t seen anything to back up the claims in this suit. The FBI said there were only a couple of girls depicted in the videos; had there been more, there would have most certainly been more charges against Hindson.

“The allegations in the suit are pure speculation. We only know what he’s been convicted of; no one has alleged there was any taping going on during the time range she’s talking about.”

Wheeler claims Indiana law protects schools from liability in cases where non-employed personnel commit crimes on school property.

The woman’s attorney, Jonathon Little, refused to comment on the lawsuit.

The woman didn’t return a phone call seeking comment.

Attempts to reach Hindson through Florida’s Marianna Correctional Institution were unsuccessful.