The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today launched a national K-12 initiative to crack down on sexual predators in schools.
A former Fresno elementary school teacher, Aaron Butler, accused of molesting multiple young students was hit with damning testimony Thursday as two of his former students told a courtroom he allegedly made them sit on his lap before touching them inappropriately during class.
SANTA ANA – A former California State Parks Superintendent, Kevin Pearsall, 59, of Long Beach, has been charged with secretly filming nearly two dozen naked state lifeguards and other workers inside an employee locker room at the Bolsa Chica State Beach Lifeguard Headquarters in Huntington Beach and sending nude images of three different victims to two other men.
After Shawn Umland took a group of his students on a field trip to Florida, licensing regulators at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction started investigating him.
A San Rafael High School teacher was arrested Wednesday on allegations he arranged to meet a minor for sex.
Amber Swain, 35, was booked on first- and second-degree incest charges in Pend Oreille County
A ride home turned into a terror trip for two sisters who got into the wrong vehicle thinking it was an Uber — leading to the rape of one of the young women, San Francisco prosecutors said Friday.
In her five years of investigating teacher misconduct in California schools, reporter Holly McDede learned an important lesson: What seems to be secret isn't always so — sometimes you just need to know who to ask, and for what.
AVON, Conn. (WTNH) — Two additional arrest warrants are being reviewed by a judge against a now-former Avon daycare employee accused of sexually assaulting multiple children who were under his care.
A Riverside County teacher has been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing a minor, according to authorities.
A married Southern California teacher was arrested for allegedly having inappropriate sexual relations with her students — and police believe there may be even more victims.
LA teachers union representative Glenn Sacks appears to believe (“Teachers deserve presumption of innocence,” May 13) that he has all the answers for the ongoing problem of child sexual abuse in our schools. He blames the victims; he blames the US Department of Education; he blames everyone but the predators and the school administrators who cover up their crimes.
More lawsuits have been filed against a daycare in Avon where a former employee allegedly sexually assaulted several boys.
A California teacher was deemed “unfit to teach” after students reported him for touching them in ways that made them uncomfortable, including massaging their shoulders.
CBS News: Sean Gardner, a gymnastics coach who trained elite young girls, pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual exploitation of children in federal court in Mississippi on Monday. He could face 15 to 30 years in prison per count when he's sentenced in October.
A former daycare worker charged with sexually assaulting five boys at BrightPath daycare in Avon worked at several other locations in the state.
The former BrightPath daycare employee charged with sexually assaulting multiple children at a center in Avon briefly worked at three other company locations in Hartford County, according to a company spokesperson.
Families hoping to make memories on a cruise were unknowingly surrounded by alleged child predators working aboard the ships, according to law enforcement officials.
The U.S. Department of Education is investigating LAUSD for allegedly reassigning, rather than removing, teachers accused of sexual misconduct during investigations.
The Department of Education’s Title IX investigation into LAUSD raises a grave question: whether the district placed the continued employment of adults credibly accused of sexual misconduct above the safety of children. If the Department’s allegations are true, LAUSD did not remove danger. It reassigned it.
The Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to pay $30.5 million to 19 more students who said they were victims of Mark Berndt, a convicted serial child molester, bringing the amount the district has paid out in connection with his crimes to more than $200 million, attorneys said Thursday.
Attorneys believe there are more victims involving a now-former Avon day care employee who was arrested earlier this month after allegedly sexually assaulting a 4-year-old child at the facility.
A former UCLA campus gynecologist whose conviction on sex-related charges involving two women was reversed by an appeals court in February pleaded guilty Tuesday to 13 felony counts.
The recent revelation from 95-year-old Dolores Huerta that César Chávez sexually abused her decades ago is a stark reminder of what research has long shown: the ramifications of sexual abuse are profound and lifelong, and it often takes survivors decades to speak out about what they experienced when they were young.
A California school district failed to properly investigate more than 100 allegations of sexual misconduct perpetrated against students by school employees over nearly a decade, investigators determined last month.
A lawsuit was filed on Wednesday against an Avon daycare's corporate parent, where an employee was arrested and charged with sexual assault and risk of injury to a child.
A lawsuit has been filed against an Avon daycare, claiming it failed to protect children from an employee who was charged with sexual assault.
The allegations against Cesar Chavez could have sweeping legal and financial implications for the United Farm Workers, legal experts say, because California in recent years has lengthened the statute of limitations for victims to file civil sexual abuse claims.
A recent state law lifted the statute of limitations on sex abuse lawsuits, driving a huge increase in payouts by school districts and government agencies. It has also increased insurance premiums for all agencies.
For decades, according to lawsuits now filed by hundreds of former patients, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center allegedly ignored or minimized repeated complaints that obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Barry Brock was sexually abusing women under the guise of medical care.
California’s Legislature is considering revising a state law that has enabled more victims of child sexual abuse to sue public schools. This column argues against reforming the law.
James M. Heaps was sentenced to 11 years in prison in April 2023. A note from the jury to the judge during deliberations was never disclosed, and an appeals court said the case must be retried.
Decades-long allegations of abuse by youth coach Jimmy Collins in Mount Kisco, New York have left lasting trauma and a community reckoning. One local man’s journey from childhood teammate to lead plaintiff helped expose how the “open secret” of Collins’ misconduct persisted for generations despite warnings and institutional failures.
Two former youth gymnasts in Iowa have filed lawsuits alleging that USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Center for SafeSport failed to act on multiple reports warning about coach Sean Gardner’s abusive behavior, allowing him continued access to children despite years of documented complaints.
Lawyers behind a record $4 billion sex abuse settlement with Los Angeles County have brought in a second mediator to oversee potential fraud after an article in the Los Angeles Times last month revealed that recruiters paid cash to potential plaintiffs on behalf of Downtown LA Law Group.
Former guidance counselor Eric Lynn Brown, who worked in the school district from 1991 to 2002, was sentenced to 102 years in prison
Victor Valley Union High School District has agreed to a $12.5 million settlement in a lawsuit brought by eight victims over child sexual abuse committed by a then-counselor at a Victorville junior high school decades ago, attorneys for the plaintiffs announced Wednesday, Oct. 22.
David Farley appeared in court Friday, five years after his patients first reported his abuse to police.
A former West Linn doctor previously accused in civil court of preying on dozens of patients was arrested Friday and criminally charged with sexually abusing two women and a girl under the age of 14.
'If they had acted in 2007 and removed her from the classroom, she never would have injured our clients and other children,' said attorney Morgan Stewart
