The Los Angeles Unified School District Pays $88 Million Settlement For Students’ Sex Abuse Case

The Los Angeles Unified School District has to pay $88 million settlement to resolve its sex abuse case against its two teachers as declared by the victims' lawyer on Monday. There were 30 students who were sexually exploited at Telfair Avenue Elementary School in Pacoima and George De La Torre Jr. Elementary School in Wilmington.

Worth Of Settlement For Each Victims

According to Yahoo! Finance, Manly, Stewart & Finaldi successfully ended the negotiation between the 30 young students' complaints against the Los Angeles Unified School District in February and March. The settlement is in favor of the child victims of sexual abuse in opposed to Paul Chapel III of TelFair Elementary School and Robert Pimental from George De La Torre Elementary School.

George De La Torre's 18 victims will receive a total of $58 million cause of damage while 12 of Paul Chapel III's casualties are set to have $30 million worth of settlement. Each of the victims will have about $3 million.

The Verdict

NBC Southern California added that the settlement came in the tail end of the verdict of Paul Chapel III on behalf of his two young victims of sexual exploitation in November 2015. He will be imprisoned for 25 years after demanding no oppose in 2012 in abusing 13 boys for four and a half year.

Robert Pimental, on the other hand, is going to be in a state prison term after insisting no question in accusation of lewd acts on a child. Unfortunately, this is not the first time the Los Angeles Unified School District faces sexual abuse allegations.

Does LAUSD Has Been Negligent?

The victims' lawyer, John C. Manly, revealed in a statement that the settlement happened because the Los Angeles Unified School District has been negligent. LAUSD is evidently disregarding complaints, warnings and reports that two of their teachers are abusing their students.

The Los Angeles Unified School District's officials remain to be silent about the issue, but LAUSD's senior attorney, Greg McNair, told Los Angeles Times, via Los Angeles Daily News, that they are "turning the corner." "We're glad that we're able to resolve both of these cases so we can avoid painful litigation and put these cases behind us," he said.

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