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Manly, Stewart & Finaldi Secure $88M Settlement in Sexual Misconduct Case Against LAUSD

Manly, Stewart & Finaldi have won a monumental victory for 30 families who sued the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) after it was discovered that two teachers had sexually abused and assaulted students for years at two separate schools. An $88 million settlement was reached – amounting to about $3M for each family and their abused children – with Attorney John Manly fronting the ...

LAUSD School Police Officer Arrested on Suspicion of Attempted Child SexTrafficking

Mauricio Edgardo Estrada, a 28 year old police officer with the Los Angeles Unified School District Police Department, has been arrested on suspicion of child sex trafficking. Estrada responded to a Craigslist advertisement offering a 15 year old girl for sex in exchange for $150.00. The advertisement was in truth a sting operation, and Estrada was conversing with an undercover officer. Estrada is ...

San Pedro High School Teacher Accused of Molesting Student

Michelle Yeh, a 28 year old teacher on a temporary teaching assignment at San Pedro High School, has been arrested on suspicion of having sex with a 15 year old male student. Yeh taught science at San Pedro High, a school within the Los Angeles Unified School District. Investigators fear there may be additional victims at other schools, as Yeh has held multiple temporary teaching assignments in ...

Torrance Wrestling Coach Facing 46 Counts of Lewd Conduct with Children

Thomas Snider, a wrestling coach at Torrance High School, is facing 46 counts of lewd conduct with children and child molestation. At his preliminary hearing, four boys testified that Snider made them remove all their clothing and allow Snider to inspect around their genitalia with a flashlight. The charges also include an allegation that he sexually assaulted an 11-year-old Madrona Middle School ...

LAPD Urge Victims of Franklin High School Coach To Come Forward

Law enforcement officials believe that Jaime Jimenez, the volunteer football coach at Benjamin Franklin High School in Los Angeles, California, likely abused children for years, meaning that many of these victims are adults now. Jimenez, 46, has coached football at the high school sine 1998. Officials are urging all victims, or anyone with information to come forward. For more information and the ...

Second Benjamin Franklin High School Staff Member Arrested On Suspicion of Child Molestation

Jaime Jimenez, a 46 year old football coach at Benjamin Franklin High School, has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting students. Jimenez has been a coach at the school since 1998, and police have not stated when the assault(s) took place. This not the first time a teacher or staff member has been arrested at Benjamin Franklin High School. Peter Gomez, a history teacher at the school, ...

Another Los Angeles Unified School District Teacher Arrested Amid Sexual Abuse Allegations

Robert Pimental, a recently retired Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) teacher who currently resides in Newport Beach, California, has been arrested and charged by prosecutors with eight counts of continuous sexual abuse and seven counts of lewd acts on a child. Pimental, who is 57 years old, is suspected of having molested at least 20 children and one adult. Mr. Pimental had been a ...

Former LAUSD Teacher Arrested for Sexual Abuse at George De La Torre Jr. Elementary School

Former LAUSD teacher Robert Pimental has been arrested by the LAPD for allegedly molesting and abusing 20 children. The teacher left his position as a fourth-grade teacher in March 2012, soon after the investigation began. Pimental has worked for the LA Unified School District since 1974, though the George De La Torre Jr. Elementary School only opened in 2006. This is a breaking story and more ...

Criminal Case Languishes, While Civil Suits Move Forward in Miramonte Scandal

One year after the nation was shocked by horrifying allegations of sexual molestation out of Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles, the criminal case against Mark Berndt continues to languish, while the many civil actions against the Los Angeles Unified School District press forward. In the aftermath of the molestation allegations, the LAUSD is facing legal claims levied by 189 students and ...

Jury Awards a Record 23 Million Dollars in Damages to Child Molested by His Fifth Grade Teacher

A Los Angeles County jury has awarded a record 23 million dollars in damages to a child who was molested by his fifth grade teacher. The primary defendant in the case, the Los Angeles Unified School District, will be required to pay 6.9 million dollars, which represents 30% of the total verdict. The child, known in court filings as Walter "Matt" Doe, had accused Forrest Stobbe, his fifth grade ...

Four Lawsuits Alleging Sexual Abuse Filed Against Los Angeles Unified School District

Four lawsuits have been filed against the Los Angeles Unified School District following the discovery that a teacher at Miramonte Elementary School had committed lewd acts against many of his students. These four lawsuits represent the first of possibly hundreds of lawsuits to follow in the wake of this discovery. The lawsuits, filed by John Manly of Manly, Stewart & Finaldi and former State ...

Child Sex Abuse Lawsuit Filed Against LAUSD

Attorneys representing 26 victims of child sexual abuse allegedly committed by teachers at Miramonte Elementary School announced today that they have filed civil lawsuits against the Los Angeles Unified School District on behalf of four of the children. Plaintiff attorneys John Manly and Senator Martha Escutia (Ret.) said that the cases are the "tip of a new iceberg" of claims against the District ...