School district accused of failing to report and warn against teacher's sexual abuse of students

A former student filed a lawsuit seeking damages for emotional distress that she experienced allegedly because her fourth-grade teacher molested her on multiple occasions from 2009 to 2010 when she was eight years old.

The plaintiff and five other former students sued the Mountain View School District and its former employee, the teacher who allegedly sexually abused them as minors. They made the following claims:

• The teacher, who was currently in the custody of the California Department of Corrections, molested them in the period from 2002 and 2017
• The school district and the teacher were liable for sexual harassment
• The school district was negligent in hiring, retaining, and supervising the teacher and in failing to warn against, train against, educate against, and report his abuse
• The plaintiff, born in May 2001, started to discover in 2016 that the teacher’s childhood sexual harassment caused her extensive physical, psychological, and emotional damages

Read more: Court refuses to revive sexual abuse claims filed against school district in 2002

The school district learned that a “teenaged family friend” subjected the plaintiff to another “sexual incident” in 2013. This subsequent molestation caused at least some of the plaintiff’s emotional distress injuries and related damages, the district alleged.

The plaintiff filed a motion seeking to exclude the evidence of the 2013...

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