The recent discovery of Amanda Berry, Nina DeJesus and Michele Knight, three young women who suffered being abducted and, according to police reports, raped over the course of the last decade by their captors draws attention to the issue of child sexual abuse in a dramatic way. However, sexual abuse of minors is frequently...

By Mia Taylor SAN DIEGO  - When a Los Angeles jury decided to award $23 million in December to a molestation victim who attended school in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the decision was noteworthy for many reasons. The $6.9 million in damages, awarded because LAUSD failed to properly supervise one of its...

By Mia Taylor SAN DIEGO – Yet another student in the Los Angeles Unified School District appears to have been the victim of an inappropriate sexual relationship with a teacher. News reports today say that a female teacher at Garden Gove Elementary School has been placed on administrative leave while a police investigation is...

Child sex abuse lawyer Steve Estey was recently interviewed by Ringler Radio host Larry Cohen along and co-host Manny J. Valdez, Jr.  The case involved a 10 year old boy who was repeatedly molested by his 5th grade teacher, Forrest Stobbe at Queen Anne Elementary School. You can hear Steve talk about the L.A.U.S.D...

SAN DIEGO - It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that a toddler came home from daycare and told her mom she had been fondled. As a parent, what would you do in such a situation? What are you first steps? How do you react? According to the Los Angeles...