LA School District Assault Case: $675K Settlement
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Case Background
A troubling lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, brought serious accusations against a major public entity, the Defendant Doe School District, later identified as the Los Angeles Unified School District. The Plaintiff, identified only by the initials LL John Doe MB to protect privacy, filed the initial complaint in December 2022. The Plaintiff alleged that the School District's negligence and systemic failures had allowed a minor student to suffer childhood sexual assault by an employee or agent of the district. The complaint declared that the district possessed an absolute duty to protect its students, yet it ultimately failed to supervise the campus and the individual who committed the assault, which led directly to the traumatic injuries. The case, which promised an emotionally difficult and complex trial concerning institutional accountability, proceeded before the Honorable Michelle C. Kim.
Cause
The lawsuit established that the direct cause of the harm was the sexual assault itself, which occurred while the Plaintiff was a minor student. The Complaint named the individual perpetrator as a “Doe Defendant” and formally accused a second Doe Defendant of failing to investigate, monitor, or supervise the perpetrator properly, which allowed the abuse to happen. The Plaintiff contended that the Defendant School District, the larger institution, had knowingly or negligently created and maintained an environment that exposed students to risk. The core of the legal action focused on the district’s failure to establish and enforce adequate policies and procedures that could have prevented the tragedy.
Injury
The Plaintiff claimed to have endured and continued to s
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