Two lawsuits allege five men and three women were abused as children at schools in San Jose, Mountain View and Santa Cruz.
Five men and three women have filed lawsuits claiming they were sexually abused decades ago by two teachers who worked at public schools in San Jose, Mountain View and Santa Cruz.
The lawsuits were brought under Assembly Bill 218, which opened a three-year period that ended in December making it easier for adults to file lawsuits over long-ago sexual abuse otherwise barred by the statute of limitations. The law has led to scores of lawsuits against schools and other institutions with youth programs, including the Boy Scouts and Catholic dioceses.
The lawsuit brought by the women now in their 50s was filed Dec. 27 in Santa Clara County Superior Court against Alum Rock Union School District. It alleges that from 1970 to 1973, when the women were first graders at William R. Rogers Elementary, their male teacher would have the girls sit on his lap during class and touch them sexually.
School officials have been required under California law to report suspected child abuse to authorities since at least 1980 under the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act.more than five decades,” attorney Lauren Cerri said in a statement. “To say the abuse changed the lives of the three women is an understatement. They have lived with the guilt and the shame nearly their entire lives.”The second lawsuit was filed Dec.
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