A Southern California school district will pay $2.25 million to settle the latest lawsuit involving a teacher who became pregnant by one of at least two students she was accused of sexually abusing.
The settlement brings to $8.25 million the amount paid by Redlands Unified School District to Laura Whitehurst’s victims since her 2013 arrest, the Southern California News Group reported Sunday.
In August 2016, the district agreed to pay $6 million to a former student who impregnated Whitehust while she was his teacher.
What other recourse do you suggest? That we ban people from suing when an organization or some members thereof know or have been made aware that another member is doing something wrong but does nothing to stop them? If you dig a little deeper, you’d find that the rapist had been accused of sexually assaulting students time and again over seven years, but the school district did nothing, despite a state law that mandated they inform the authorities.
https://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/2018/06/22/rumors-swirled-for-years-about-teacher-having-sex-with-students-so-why-did-redlands-unified-not-report-suspicions/
That’s what I meant when I said I can’t fix it. That money doesn’t come from the administration that failed to protect students either, it comes from people whose only sin was living near the rape school.
I wouldn’t have too much of a problem with jail time for every mandatory reporter who failed to report, though. That might be a start.