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
This is an engineered crisis by school districts and public entities to scream to the Legislature when there are solutions built into the law already,” said Morgan Stewart, a partner at Manly, Stewart & Finaldi.
Michigan couple held in a Mexican maximum security prison for a month over a timeshare dispute have filed suit against a resort, claiming it “weaponized” the Cancun judicial system and coerced them to sign an NDA while armed guards stood watching, court papers show.
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 former campus supervisor at Diegueno Middle School in Encinitas who molested a 12-year-old female student was sentenced Wednesday to 28 years in state prison.
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.
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.”
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.
