After word got out that the Moraga School District maintained that a Joquin Moraga middle school student who was sexually abused by a teacher back in the nineties was “careless and negligent”, school district trustees apologized to the former student.
The Contra Costa Times reported that the district said:
“The governing board and its attorneys, Stubbs and Leone, apologize to Ms. Cunnane for any anxiety or distress caused by the inclusion of this defense in its response to her pleading,” he said.
This is good they did this of course, but what I found interesting is that the Moraga School District attorney that used this language also represents the Lafayette School District and used similar language in a separate sex abuse case involving a Stanley Middle School teacher and student.
The same article notes:
Lafayette school trustees met in special closed session Wednesday afternoon to discuss Jane Doe’s lawsuit, and later announced a unanimous vote to “withdraw the defense of comparative fault and any assertion of carelessness or negligence” on the part of Jane Doe.
The question that comes to mind for me is what other sex abuse cases has this attorney been involved in? Someone should review them and see what other schools need to apologize.