SAN JOSE — Eleven girls who say they were sexually abused by a convicted former teacher are suing the Alum Rock Union School District, claiming administrators conspired to cover up his past misconduct and move him around schools instead of reporting him to authorities.
A new lawsuit filed on behalf of students accuses the Alum Rock Union School District of placing a “serial pedophile” in three San Jose schools where he allegedly abused more than thirty female students.
Eleven victims in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, June 12, allege the current interim superintendent at the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District and former staff conspired to cover up sexual abuse by a former teacher.
NYS Supreme Court Judge Alexandra Murphy rejected motions filed by the Village of Mt. Kisco and the Boys & Girls Club to remove themselves from lawsuits filed by 11 alleged victims of James “Jimmy” Collins. Collins, now in prison, is accused of sexually abusing 16 boys over a period of 40 years, starting in the 1970’s in his role as a coach, counselor and janitor for the Village of Mt. Kisco, the Boys Club of Northern Westchester and Chappaqua School District.
“Barstow Unified School District has a child sexual abuse scandal brewing that is on par with what we have seen within Redlands Unified School District and the Los Angeles Unified School District,” the victim’s attorney, Morgan Stewart, said in a May 23 statement.
Redlands Unified has paid more than $45.5 million to settle teacher sex abuse lawsuits since 2016
A former Redlands middle school teacher convicted in 2005 of sexually abusing three male students and sentenced to more than 74 years in prison, has been released from custody and is now living in Palm Desert. Sean Ramiro Lopez, 50, who taught at Clement Middle School from 1999 to 2002, is listed on the Megan’s Law database as “very low risk” to commit a new sexual offense. Under terms of his release, Lopez will spend the first six months of his parole in transitional housing.
Shortly after a New York appeals court overturned Harvey Weinstein’s conviction on rape charges in Manhattan, a defense attorney in the disgraced movie mogul’s Los Angeles case said the same should happen in California.
The Justice Department announced Tuesday it has agreed to pay nearly $139 million to victims of former Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, settling legal claims brought over the department’s failure to investigate allegations that could have brought the convicted child molester to justice sooner and prevented dozens of assaults.
Most reporters have covered a story so disturbing that they never want to think about it again — yet the evil subject makes it impossible to ever forget.
