Empowering Voices, Ensuring Justice: Insights and Updates on Sexual Abuse Legal Battles
Two women who allege they were sexually abused for years by a high school wrestling coach in Orange County have filed a lawsuit alleging officials at two school districts ignored warning signs and failed to protect them from the predatory coach, who allegedly impregnated one of them when she was 16.
Todd Baldwin, 44, former director of operations at Valley Christian High School is facing a possible sentence of life in federal prison after prosecutors here charged him with enticing two minors to film child pornography of themselves, court records show.
The former principal of a San Bernardino school has been arrested for sex crimes after chatting online with a sheriff’s detective posing as a minor, officials said.
David Lane Braff, Jr., a former Ventura County school counselor, who was arrested in November on suspicion of molesting eight young children, has been charged with 14 additional felony counts of lewd acts upon a child after five more victims came forward, authorities said.
Six women who received ultrasound examinations at a hospital operated by Sutter Health are suing the California health care giant, alleging they were sexually assaulted by an ultrasound technician who remained employed despite multiple complaints and two police investigations into his behavior.
A teacher at a middle school in Norristown told one of his eighth-grade students that she was beautiful and asked for permission to kiss her during a planned field trip to Washington, prosecutors in Montgomery County said Wednesday. John Richards, 57 a science teacher at Blockson Middle School ,was charged with attempted institutional sexual assault, attempted corruption of minors, unlawful contact with a minor, and related crimes after prosecutors say the girl, 13, told her father and the school’s principal about the inappropriate text message.
Mario Moralez Guadalupe ,a janitor who works for the Riverside Unified School District has been charged with 19 felonies, including lewd acts on a minor younger than 14 years old, Riverside County Superior Court records show. A sheriff’s deputy investigating the case said there could be as many as 21 victims.
32-year-old elementary school employee Mariano Hernandez is facing charges of sexual assault after reportedly carrying on a “dating relationship” with a 16-year-old female high school student, according to police.
Terra Nova High School wood shop teacher Paul Spinetti was arrested for sexual assault, the Pacifica Police Department (PPD) announced in a press release Spinetti, 64, allegedly committed lewd and lascivious sexual acts against a female student.
On January 23, 2025, the Riverside Sheriff’s Office was contacted by the Riverside County Probation Department regarding an alleged inappropriate relationship involving a former employee and a male juvenile who is in custody. As a result, investigators from the Riverside Sheriff’s Office Special Victims Unit launched an investigation into the allegations.
