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 ...

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, January 16, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The law firm of Nadrich & Cohen, LLP announces that its legal teams are handling sexual abuse cases under the new California sex abuse victims law which provides ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES – An Arizona man who admitted molesting four young boys in China and documenting the abuse with hundreds of photographs and videos has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison. Kelly James Morrow, 49, who has a U.S. residence ...

LOS ANGELES — Withelma “T” Ortiz Walker Pettigrew grew up in the foster care system in Los Angeles, where she lived in 14 different group homes, most of which featured various levels of abuse. Her experience showed her how children, in a ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Oct. 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorneys representing child abuse victims of the Roman Catholic Church and the Los Angeles Unified School District reacted with outrage to an attempt by Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez to ...

Sheriff to staff: Stop arresting children on prostitution charges, stop saying 'child prostitute' Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell announced Wednesday that his department will immediately stop arresting children on prostitution charges. ...

Los Angeles Unified agreed to pay out $139.2 million to settle 85 remaining lawsuits in the Miramonte Elementary School sex abuse scandal, just days before opening arguments in the civil case were set to start. » Please click here to read the ...

Los Angeles Unified agreed to pay out $139.2 million to settle 85 remaining lawsuits in the Miramonte Elementary School sex abuse scandal, just days before opening arguments in the civil case were set to start. » Please click here to read the ...

Another man has sued Kevin Clash over allegations of child sexual abuse, making it the fifth allegation and fourth lawsuit against the disgraced Elmo voice actor. The case is being handled by lawyer Jeff Herman, who represents the other cases ...

In yet another embarrassment for one of the nation’s largest public school systems, Robert Pimentel, 57, a fourth grade teacher is in custody on suspicion of sexually assaulting 20 of his female students and one adult. A previous report of ...

Documents from the late 1980s show that Archbishop Roger M. Mahony and another archdiocese official discussed strategies to keep police from discovering that children were being sexually abused by priests. Fifteen years before the clergy sex ...

A former third-grade teacher at Telfair Elementary School in Pacoima was sentenced on Thursday to 25 years in prison and was ordered to register as a sex offender for life for molesting 13 former students. Paul Chapel III, 51, of Chatsworth, was ...

A California man, Jeffrey Reed Parish, 65, who spent 18 years on the run from charges that he molested a four-year-old girl has been arrested in Guatemala and returned to the United States for prosecution, authorities said Tuesday. Parish, who ...

Fourteen mothers, whose children prosecutors say were sexually abused by a Los Angeles teacher facing 23 felony charges, sued the school district on Tuesday seeking damages for "generalized shock and trauma." » Please click here to read full ...

A former Los Angeles elementary school teacher has now been charged with sexually abusing 13 children. Paul Chapel was charged last fall with continuous sexual abuse of three girls and a boy. The Los Angeles Daily News says a revised criminal ...

On the eve of his trial on 13 charges of sex crimes against children, former Pineville church youth minister Angelo “Doogie” Golatt, age 29, pleaded guilty today, March 19, to four counts of forcible rape. Ninth District Judge Tom Yeager ...