The school district's 'conduct exemplifies that it cannot and will not keep kids safe,' says attorney Morgan Stewart, who has repeatedly sued the district
The British philosopher G.K. Chesterton is most famous for his mystery series featuring Father Brown, a Catholic priest who moonlights as a detective. But geeks also rightly honor his anti-populist defense of time-honored principles neatly summed up in what we’ve come to call Chesterton’s Fence. Chesterton (1874–1936) put it this way: if you’re walking through a forest and come upon a fence for which you can see no purpose, you might be inclined to tear it down — to free the wilderness, perhaps, to eliminate a blemish on the land. But it would be better if you first learned why the fence was there in the first place.
In 2016, an Oregon teenager went to see her longtime family doctor, David Farley, for a physical before her missionary trip. Like the doctor, the teenager was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He allegedly convinced her that a penetrative pelvic exam was necessary at such an appointment — a line he frequently used even when evaluating elementary school aged patients for a sports physical.
A $2 million verdict was reached in a lawsuit filed against the Barstow Unified School District that claimed a teacher sexually assaulted an elementary school student in 1984, and lawyers representing victims state that the district has a “long and sordid history of allowing sexual predators to molest children in its schools.”
A jury has awarded a $2 million verdict to a former Barstow Unified School District student who was sexually abused by her elementary school teacher in the 1980s, her attorneys announced Wednesday.
Many eyes were on Los Angeles County on April 7 as a claims board approved a long haggled-over $4-billion settlement, following a flood of lawsuits from victims who said they were sexually abused as children in county-run lock-ups and foster homes.
A judge Wednesday refused to compel former West Linn Dr. David B. Farley to answer further deposition questions in a pending civil suit over patient allegations of sexual abuse, finding he lawfully invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
A sex-crazed English teacher who became pregnant by one of the students she sexually abused is facing a new lawsuit from another alleged victim.
A fourth former Redlands High School student alleges in a new lawsuit that he was sexually abused by former teacher Laura Whitehurst beginning in 2007 and that administrators, counselors, and teachers failed to prevent or report it.
Enrique Rodriguez Valladares, a former third-grade teacher at Bowling Green Chacon Language and Science Academy in Sacramento, is sentenced Sacramento Superior Court on April 25, 2025. Valladares, who taught in the Sacramento City Unified School District for 28 years, was sentenced to eight years in prison after he pleaded no contest to sexually abusing students. Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article305094696.html#storylink=cpy
Thousands of documents that could contain key details about rampant childhood sexual abuse inside a defunct Santa Clarita detention camp — including so-called “grooming drawings” — were left scattered inside the facility and never turned over to the victims’ attorneys, according to a firm suing L.A. County over the decades-old incidents.
A Michigan couple accused of fraud in a timeshare contract dispute and held in a Mexican prison for 32 days has returned home following negotiations between U.S. and Mexican officials.
There is potentially good news for a Michigan couple held for weeks in a maximum-security Mexican prison because of a dispute over a timeshare.
Michigan Republican Rep. Tom Barrett is traveling to Mexico to visit a Michigan couple jailed because of a dispute with a resort company over timeshare payments.
Congressman Tom Barrett is traveling to Mexico today with the hope of getting a Michigan couple released from prison.
A Michigan couple has been detained in Mexico amid a dispute over timeshare payments with a resort company, and Michigan Rep. Tom Barrett is now on his way to Cancun to try and facilitate their release.
LANSING — Congressman Tom Barrett is traveling to Mexico today with the hope of getting a Michigan couple released from prison.
U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett (R-MI) traveled to Mexico in an effort to get a Spring Arbor couple out of prison and back to mid-Michigan.
A Michigan couple is reportedly being "held captive" in a Mexico jail amid an alleged dispute with a timeshare company, the family has claimed
A Michigan couple was arrested in Mexico for allegedly defrauding a hospitality company, but their family said they were wrongfully charged.
Beong-Soo Kim, a former federal prosecutor and the university’s general counsel, will take over as interim president when Carol Folt steps down.
Clackamas County’s district attorney has asked Oregon’s attorney general to take over an investigation into a former West Linn doctor accused by dozens of former patients of sexual abuse.
Despite repeatedly defending his office’s handling of the sex abuse case against West Linn doctor David Farley, which ultimately led to no charges, Clackamas County District Attorney John Wentworth has now asked the Oregon Department of Justice to take on the case.
The agreement, believed to be the largest single settlement of its kind by a Catholic archdiocese, will settle 1,353 claims of childhood sexual abuse.
The settlement is the highest single payout by an archdiocese, experts said, and brings Los Angeles’s cumulative payout in sex abuse lawsuits to more than $1.5 billion.
Testifying Wednesday before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, Breane Wingfield said she was 14 when, in 2005, she was sexually assaulted in a van by a deputy probation officer employed at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey.
A band teacher for an Anaheim junior high school is facing consequences after a woman revealed what she calls a decades-old secret. Teacher Steve Graves, 61, is accused of sexual abuse of two teenage girls nearly 40 years ago.
The three women sit huddled together, hands and arms intertwined, heads on each other’s shoulders. For too long, each felt utterly alone and it’s as if their physical closeness gives them a boost of strength.
Anaheim police are investigating a 61-year-old band teacher after two women accused him of having inappropriate relationships with them while they were students of his at Loara High School in the 1980s, authorities said on Friday, Sept. 13.
ABC News’ Juju Chang speaks with John C. Manly, the attorney representing survivors of sexual assault by Larry Nassar, about the watchdog report from the DOJ regarding sexual abuse against children.
A new report from the Inspector General reveals that the FBI continued to mishandle child sex abuse claims, despite training policy updates and system changes after the Larry Nassar abuse scandal.
The Justice Department inspector general said Thursday that the FBI is still not adequately handling allegations of child sex abuse, years after the Larry Nassar scandal led to a series of new rules on such investigations.
Senior FBI official said bureau made mistakes in investigating crimes against children but that ‘vast majority of work’ handled appropriately.
The report comes three years after another report criticized the FBI's handling of allegations against convicted sexual abuser Larry Nassar.
The Justice Department’s inspector general cited significant improvements even as he identified structural issues, like high caseloads, that continue to hamper progress.
