Posted on January 15, 2014     |     Attorney, Child Abuse, Child Molestation, clergy sexual abuse, Firm News

The Diocese of Stockton has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy because it can no longer afford to pay legal expenses in connection with clergy sexual abuse allegations. The city of Stockton is also filing for bankruptcy. The Stockton Diocese is one of ten total dioceses in the United States to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy… read more

Posted on January 15, 2014     |     Attorney, California, Child Abuse, Child Molestation, Child Pornograpghy, Church, clergy sexual abuse, Firm News, John Manly, Lewd acts, Molestation, Pedophile, Rape, Sex Offender, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Molestation

Father Michael Kelly, a long time priest of the Diocese of Stockton, has been indicted by a grand jury on three counts of lewd and lascivious conduct on a child and one count of oral copulation. Kelly, who has not been defrocked, faces up to 14 years in prison. The District Attorney’s Office will seek… read more

Posted on October 26, 2013     |     Assault, Attorney, California, Child Abuse, Child Molestation, Child Pornograpghy, Firm News, Lewd acts, Molestation, Pedophile, Rape, Sex Offender, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Molestation

Prior to joining the Army Navy Academy as a senior administrator, praised by the President of the Academy as “the finest employee at our school,” Jeffrey Barton was fired from a boys’ boarding school in Tennessee after allegedly fondling one of the eighth-graders.

Posted on October 26, 2013     |     Assault, Attorney, California, Child Abuse, Child Molestation, Child Pornograpghy, Firm News, Lewd acts, Molestation, Pedophile, Rape, Sex Offender, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Molestation

Following allegations and an arrest of a senior administrator at the Army Navy Academy in Carlsbad, California, the Academy has hired a former New York sex-crime prosecutor to critique its hiring practices and how it responded, or failed to respond, to persistent rumors about the perpetrator’s creepy proclivities. Jeffrey Barton, who is 55, was arrested… read more

Posted on October 22, 2013     |     Assault, Attorney, California, Child Abuse, Child Molestation, Child Pornograpghy, Firm News, Lewd acts, Los Angeles, Molestation, Pedophile, Rape, Sex Offender, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Molestation

Jeffrey Barton, the 55-year-old former head of schools at the Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad, California, has entered a plea of not guilty to two counts of sodomy by force and 14 counts of oral copulation by force. The trial of Jeffrey Barton is taking place in Vista, California – near the location of… read more

Posted on October 18, 2013     |     Assault, Attorney, California, Child Abuse, Child Molestation, Firm News, Lewd acts, Molestation, Pedophile, Rape, Sex Offender, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Molestation

Former Army and Navy Academy administrator Jeffrey Barton was arrested on October 18, 2013, on charges of sexually molesting six former students. The investigation was opened this June when a victim, now an adult, reported past sexual abuse by Barton to the police. Since then, five other victims have been identified and the investigation is… read more

Posted on June 20, 2013     |     Assault, Attorney, California, Child Abuse, Child Molestation, Firm News, Lewd acts, Molestation, Rape, Sex Offender, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Molestation

Summer Michelle Hansen, a Special Education teacher working at Centennial High School in Corona, California, has been arrested on suspicion of having sex with at least one student on school grounds. Hansen, 31, has been teaching at Centennial since 2008 and in currently on leave pending the outcome of the investigation. Although police do not… read more

Posted on March 25, 2013     |     Assault, Attorney, California, Child Abuse, Child Molestation, Child Pornograpghy, Firm News, Lewd acts, Molestation, Pedophile, Public School Abuse, Sex Offender, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Molestation

A lawsuit has been filed against Sacramento City Unified School District, by a teenage boy and his mother. The suit stems from the recent arrest and conviction of Preston Howard Lewis, who was sentenced in October to 18 years in state prison after pleading no contest to three felonies and a misdemeanor for molesting a… read more

Posted on March 14, 2013     |     Attorney, California, Child Abuse, Child Molestation, Church, clergy sexual abuse, Firm News, John Manly, Lewd acts, Los Angeles, Molestation, Pedophile, Sex Offender, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Molestation

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has settled four clergy sex abuse cases brought by individuals who were molested by one of the Diocese’s most notorious pedophile priests, Father Michael Baker. The settlement comes just after the Archdiocese of Los Angeles released thousands of documents relating to sexual abuse within the Church. Some of those documents… read more

Posted on March 6, 2013     |     Assault, Attorney, California, Child Abuse, Child Molestation, Firm News, John Manly, Lewd acts, Molestation, Pedophile, Public School Abuse, Rape, Sex Offender, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Molestation

Following nearly four weeks of trial, a settlement has been reached between Lodi Unified School District and the eight year old plaintiff who had been sexually molested by her school bus driver. The announcement of a settlement comes after the jury had unanimously found that the school district was 90% responsible for plaintiff’s abuse. The… read more