Los Angeles police have arrested Los Angeles Unified School District middle school teacher Colleen Jo Matarico on charges that she groomed and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old student, and investigators believe there are additional victims who have not yet come forward.
Matarico, a special education teacher at John Burroughs Middle School in the Brookside area, was arrested on five...
Waters Kraus Paul & Siegel clients welcomed a landmark $880 million settlement that resolves more than 1,300 sex abuse lawsuits filed by individuals who were victimized by priests and other adults within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
“It’s impossible to truly make amends for the trauma of child abuse, but this settlement is a recognition of the harm done...
Efforts by Pope Francis to address global clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church have failed, according to victims and other advocates. In an article published by the National Catholic Reporter (NCR), plans unveiled at a summit of bishops in 2019 are no better at protecting abuse victims today than before. Many argue that a mandatory reporting law that emerged from the meeting remains cloaked...
Survivors of clergy sex abuse find it nearly impossible to crawl out from under their painful memories. For some, like Charles Richardson, the trauma stretches back to 1970s Baltimore, where he was abused by a trusted Catholic priest, Rev. Henry Zerhusen. It’s a story that spans religions and denominations.
A Damaging Report
Richardson was not the first to be abused within the...
Two women who were sexually assaulted by their ninth-grade social studies teacher at a Los Angeles-area public middle school in 1974 have each obtained seven-figure monetary settlements thanks to litigation filed by trial lawyers at Waters Kraus Paul & Siegel.
According to the two lawsuits, the school district and school personnel ignored signs during the 1974-75 school year that...
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