BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Fifteen people, including a California Highway Patrol officer and a prison employee, were arrested in connection with trying to meet minors to engage in sex acts after the sheriff’s office conducted an undercover ...
LOS ANGELES, July 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorneys with the Carrillo Law Firm announced an $11 million settlement on behalf of nine children who accused a former coach with the Los Angeles Unified School District of childhood sexual ...
San Diego County supervisors approved a $400,000 payment to the adoptive parents of a foster child who were not informed of their child’s sexually inappropriate behavior. That troublesome behavior was allegedly caused by sexual and physical ...
SAN DIEGO — A former San Diego corporate executive who traveled to the Philippines to have sex with children was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in federal prison for child pornography. Carsten Igor Rosenow, 55, made videos of ...
A former Palo Alto teacher charged with engaging in sex acts with a minor was sentenced to six years and eight months in state prison on Jan. 17, according to San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. ...
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Attorneys for students who were sexually abused by Los Angeles Unified School District teachers Paul Chapel and Robert Pimentel say they have won an $18.4 million settlement on behalf of their clients. ...
Extra security was stationed at an Alpine middle school Thursday after a student reported being approached by a stranger in a truck, according to a letter to parents from the Alpine Union School District. According to the letter, a Joan MacQueen ...
ALAMEDA — A victim that was molested by his tennis coach is suing the US Tennis Association, alleging that it should have known that the coach was an accused child molester. The civil suit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court last week, ...
A federal appeals court has reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a former San Bernardino County social worker alleging he was fired for reporting a systemic flaw that allowed children to be repeatedly placed into a foster home where ...
The Rev. Gregory Sheridan was described as a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — “the nicest man in the world, but inside … were demons.” Anthony Rodrigue, another deceased San Diego cleric, was called “one of the most prolific and horrible ...
SAN DIEGO — Four sexual assault victims of a convicted and now-deceased Catholic priest will sue the Diocese of San Diego early next year, as recently-enacted legislation allows the men to sue for damages even though the abuse occurred outside ...
A former Vista Unified School district teacher is accused of sexually abusing an underage girl over the course of eight years, according to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Tay Christopher Cooper, 67, is expected to be released within the ...
The top commander of the Los Angeles Police Department’s juvenile detectives faced tough questioning from L.A. County commissioners Monday, a day after revelations that thousands of cases of serious child abuse in the city were not ...
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A 55-year-old volunteer youth cheer coach has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting five girls he instructed, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Michael Edmond, 54, of Los ...
SAN DIEGO -- Bishop Robert McElroy gathered all 2,500 employees of the San Diego Catholic Diocese Tuesday to announce an expansion of the fight against sexual abuse of children wherever it occurs. "Confront and stop' child sexual abuse any where ...
Travis Lee Putnam, a former Orange Glen High School teacher who admitted to sexually abusing underage boys, faces sentencing Monday in Vista. Putnam entered a guilty plea last month, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. He pleaded not ...
A 19-year-old camp counselor has been charged with sexually assaulting two young girls during summer camp outings. Nicolas David Cruz, 19, of Mission Viejo was arrested by the Irvine Police Department on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at Mission Viejo ...
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (FOX 11) - He is the leader of La Luz Del Mundo church but now, Joaquin Garcia is behind bars accused of human trafficking and much more. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced on Tuesday that mega-church leader ...
UPDATE - A former Santa Clarita-area youth basketball coach was sentenced to nine years in state prison for sexually assaulting nine teenage boys who played or trained with him privately. In May, Jeremy Haggerty, 34, pleaded no contest to six ...
LAFAYETTE — A private high school teacher who last year was arrested and charged with molesting children he babysat had been employed despite falsely claiming that he had a doctorate degree. Brandon Genest, 29, worked as a ninth- through ...