At the beginning of the school year In August of 2012, our client, a 10 year old special needs child, was sexually abused multiple times over a period of weeks by other children on a Folsom Cordova Unified School District Bus. The incidents were discovered only because one of the children set off the...

Our record at Estey & Bomberger indicates an impressive success rate in obtaining for our most vulnerable victims- maximum compensation for the costs of medical bills, psychotherapy treatments, and what often amounts to years of painful counseling. Our dedicated and knowledgeable team has won at the trial level, or else secured impressive settlement figures...

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...

INYO COUNTY - A 51-year-old Bishop man was arrested last Friday, February 3rd, on suspicion of a sex crime, theMammoth Times reported. Officers served a search warrant on Richard Ferrell Andreas, Sr., 51, of Bishop, and arrested him for lewd and lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14. Andres was booked...

TEMECULA - Alex Flores, 40, a former softball coach for the Temecula Valley Girls Softball Association, has pleaded guilty to molesting three teenaged girls. According to a report in the Temecula Patch, Flores gave wine to one of the softball players he coached during an overnight stay for a softball game in Coachella. When...

A 57-year-old Ontario Catholic priest has been arrested on charges of molesting a 12-year-old boy, the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin reported. The priest, the Rev. Jose Alejandro Castillo, a.k.a., Father Alex, was booked into the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga in lieu of $1 million bail. Prior to his arrest, Castillo worked...