Student Sex Abuse

Unless you’ve been on a weeks’-long hiatus to some remote corner of the earth or simply sworn off all media for a month, you are acutely aware that sexual assault allegations and stories have been front-and-center news items of late. We won’t get into the details of what’s been a focal point of public discourse…

The sad saga now being recounted in some national media outlets regarding the sexual abuse of young children is typical for its sketching of details that all too commonly feature in such cases There was an adult authority figure, namely, a school bus helper. That individual — a 38-year-old male — had ready access to…

The Los Angeles Unified School District is no stranger to claims made by parents and other caregivers that school officials, teachers, coaches and other staff members either committed sexual assault acts against children or abetted them through laxity. A material update regarding one such claim was recently reported via a local media report describing an…

Public indignation regarding perceived laxity in criminal sentencing outcomes for sexual-assault defendants is hardly a geographically confined concern. Indeed, it’s coast to coast. Many readers of our sexual victims’ advocacy blog at the long-tenured Los Angeles personal injury law firm of Taylor & Ring will readily note that after considering today’s post in conjunction with…

California judge Aaron Persky got a recent dose of public attention so adverse that it has rendered him a virtual pariah in the minds of many state residents. Here’s ample proof of that, supplied courtesy of a recent profile of Persky appearing in the Los Angeles Times: reportedly, about 1.3 million people have signed a…

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has long taken a strong advocacy stance on behalf of sexual assault victims, and he will reportedly promote his involvement in that realm by rendering a cameo performance in an upcoming television episode on a long-running and popular series. That show is Law & Order: SVU (special victims unit), which…

It’s really not hard to understand, say school officials, advocates promoting harassment-free school environments, many parents and other interested parties. Here’s the deal, in a nutshell: Much harmful and unlawful sexual conduct hat manifests itself in adulthood owes centrally to a perpetrator’s wrongful behaviors learned — and, importantly, not discouraged — years earlier. As in…

Do not wait to seek legal help. That is the firm admonition we stress for parents and other caregivers in Southern California or elsewhere across the state who reasonably know or suspect that a child under their charge is being sexually abused by one or more students at school. We note on our website at…

He flat-out got it wrong and, in the process, materially harmed the entire student body at his national university. Although a recent editorial goes far beyond that narrow and pointed condemnation, the single sentence above conveys quite accurately the central gist of criticisms levied against the president of Penn State University for a letter he…

Our children are at once the most impressionable and vulnerable demographic within our society, possessed of breathtaking promise yet simultaneously needing to be duly supervised and watched with care while they grow and mature. We all want what’s best for our kids, and know intuitively that promoting their interests encompasses involving them in activities that…

“[S]haring a library with your rapist can make it hard to learn.” Now that is a sentence that is bound to induce a bit of reflection for any reader confronting it, which is certainly the intention of two young women who recently penned a national article chronicling the widespread problem of sexual assault committed against…

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has duly reflected. And with the “further reflection” recently noted by an attorney representing the archdiocese, that church body has withdrawn the earlier support it had extended to the Los Angeles Unified School District in a sexual abuse case involving a former teacher and a 14-year-old female student.…