Six former students of the Mountain View school district bother for a teacher won their demand against the district and their former teacher and a jury granted him $ 48 million on Monday, April 14.
The district will have to pay $ 36.2 million of the $ 48 million, while the rest will come from the former teacher, Joseph Alfred Baldebro, according to the lawyers of the alumni.
Baldenebro is in prison for committing lascivious acts about students.
“Justice finally reached these six survivors,” Michael Carillo, lawyer for the victims on Tuesday. “The Mountain View School District fought against them for so many years without accepting any responsibility for the damage of a lifetime that ignited them. Shame for them.”
The alumni, their guardians and parents sued the district of Mountain View, Baldebro and make 1 to 100 in 2018. The trial began on March 14 and lasted a month.
The jury deliberated two days, said Nicholas C. Rowley, also lawyer for the plaintiffs.
“The impact of this verdict is a claim of victims of child sexual abuse against the school district that not only could not protect them, but also served as an accomplice in abuses because of their atrocious negligence,” Rowley said. “We believe that this jury verdict will serve to protect millions of other children in educational institutions through the country.”
The district ignored countless warnings, and predictable, a trail of children’s victims suffered the consequences, Rowley said.
“The fact that the district did not act in the embolia and allowed the years of abuse of Mr. Baldebro, subjecting each of these victims to deep psychological damage, PTSD and a trauma for life that will keep them forever,” Rowley said.
The boy and five girls who filed the civil demand were in the quarterfinals and fifth grade at Miramonte Elementary School in South El Monte at the time of abuse, according to the demand. Baldenebro harassed and sexually abused Jane Do between 2002 and 2004, Jane DS Doe in 2010 and 2011, then John Doe, Jane Doe, Jane Gj Doe and Jane Dr. in 2016 and 2017, declared the lawsuit.
Baldenebro was a teacher at Miramonte primary from 1996 to 2017. There were four directors.
Each director knew that Baldebro violated several school policies and the students inappropriately moved, but despite the many red flags that arose, he was never disciplined and he was allowed to sexuuse the jet classroom of his student of his class student of the class.
From the 1990s to 2017, the district ignored innumerable warnings of several teachers and students regarding the inappropriate behavior of Baldebro, students’ lawyers said.
The directors granted warnings written by Baldenebro in 2001, 2005 and 2010, but the incidents were not informed of any agency to apply the law, in accordance with the trial letter.
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Teachers, other school employees, students and parents told administrators about the behavior of buckets with students.
In 2004, Jane Ry Doe told the director that Baldebro would keep her in the classroom alone with the closed and that would sit in her lap, grab and kiss her, according to the trial letter. She is also the director that Baldenebro seemed excited in her pants.
That same day, the main hero a meeting with Jane Ry Doe, his parents and Baldenebro after school. The girl repeated what she told the director, but Baldenebro accused her or reacted exaggerating, that he was just doing that as an act of love and care that he only kissed her because Sheer was her Goddahter, the Baldenebroe Aringebro trial.
The director convinced Jane Ry do’s parents that this Baldebro behavior was normal because it was his godfather and no action was tasks after the meeting, according to the trial letter.
The trial letter also declared that the duration of the 2010/2011 school year, a fifth grade student complained to the director that Baldebro was touching girls inappropriately and called him pedophile.
His parents also the director that Baldenebro hugged the students and played their breasts while surrounding them. They said that Baldenebro would say that her daughter was good to act badly because her parents would realize and that she could have a boyfriend and kiss him if she wanted to.
The director ignored his complaints and tolerates them that the incidents did not happen, according to the trial letter. The parents also complained to the district office, but they were supposedly told that Baldenebro was a good teacher, a good person and nothing would be done about their complaints, according to the trial letter.
Between 2001 and 2005, a teacher saw Baldenebro hug the students and place the students in their lap, according to the demand.
A coordinator of a program duration after the school went to the Baldebro classroom, opened without hitting and a sixth grade student and his little sister were there. The coordinator saw the student’s sister raising her pants while the student helped her keep her clothes and bucdebro could see them changing, the lawsuit declared. He contacted school administrators after this incident and informed the incident to the Department of Children and Families of the Los Angeles County, but no action was tasks against Baldebro by the district.
“The school district finally admitted its negligence in the supervision of Baldebro, but refused to recognize the trauma of a lifetime suffered by the victims,” said the plaintiffs “lawyers.
Rowley doubted that the district was declared in bankruptcy and said he has insurance.
The district issued a statement, but did not answer some questions immediately, the insurance will cover its part of damage and if any financial liability will lead to cuts in programs or personnel and if the district has insurance.
“We are aware that the trial has concluded, and the jury has made a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs for an amount of $ 48 million,” said Raymond Andry, superintendent of the Mountain View school district, in a statement.
“The Mountain View School District of unequivocally condemns the abuse of any kind and remains deeply sad for the captivated damage for our students and the community. We recognize the impact that this situation has had and extends our deepest saying, and those.” And those. “
The district has taken measures since the abuse to educate students, families and staff came to light, with the aim of preventing future incidents from being detected or not reported, he said.
Since 2021, Andry said the district has implemented several measures to strengthen the security of students and guarantee open communication within school communities. This includes “being seen: being heard”, which described as a program of sexual consciousness and abuse of sexual abuse and aggression apopriated by age and district.
“Through thesis efforts and our continuous work to meet the educational and security needs of our students and families, continually encouraging all students and staff to speak and seek support when necessary. Our remains open, and we are dedicated to fostering”, and encouraging encourage
The verdict followed a trial that included controversy.
Rowley, backed by statements from 16 lawyers, presented a motion to disqualify the judge of the Superior Court Mary Ann Murphy of the case, citing alleged favoritism in the presence of jurors, racial bias and a history of abusive behavior.
A similar complaint was filed before the State Commission on judicial performance, which is responsible for investigating the accusations and disciplining the judges.
Rowley said that since he filed the complaint, Murphy’s behavior has improved significantly. “Judge Murphy worked very hard to be a judge just after our presentation, he said.
Baldenebro was 54 years old, he lived in Montebello and was still a teacher at Miramonte primary when the researchers arrested him on June 21, 2017 by inappropriately playing girls at school.
He was accused of annoying five students in school land between August 2015 and May 2017.
Baldenebro toke a deal. He did not oppose a serious crime charge of a lascivious act on a child and four charges of abuse of spontaneous abortion and was sentenced on January 23, 2018 to eight years in prison. Hello, you also have to register as a sexual offender for life.
In 2022, the authorities accused him of crimes that occurred on October 1, 2010. It was not clear in the judicial records online how many victims were in this case. Judicial records show that Baldebro did not oppose three serious crimes of lascivious or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age and was sentenced on July 15, 2024 to 12 years in prison.
The now 62 -year -old will be eligible for probation in March 2031.