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News of a Simi Valley, CA elementary school teacher’s arrest this week stunned local residents. 32-year-old Malia Brooks, said to be an exemplary teacher, was arrested shortly after 4:00 p.m. on charges relating to an “inappropriate relationship” she had with an unidentified boy. The arrest came after a four-month investigation during which Brooks was…

An L.A. County Parks & Recreation worker is in police custody on suspicion of child sexual abuse. The Los Angeles Times reports that the suspect (D.L.J.) is held on multiple counts of lewd acts with a child, including inappropriate touching. The L.A. Sheriff’s Department said that the 62-year-old man preyed on children under the…

A confidential document, dated October 2009, indicates the L.A. Unified School District may have known about sexual misconduct at De La Torre Elementary School and failed to take action. The document reports a protest conducted by parents near the back gate of the elementary school in Wilmington, where police arrested a 57-year-old teacher earlier…

A 60-year-old man was arrested after a three-day investigation involving molestation allegations at Leuzinger High School. According to police officials, the crime can be seen on surveillance videos. The defendant, a former union official, allegedly molested a 16-year-old, mentally challenged high school student after he followed her into a school stairwell. The crime occurred…

National statistics indicate that sexual misconduct in American schools may be growing in frequency. One 20-year-old woman recently talked to new sources about her past abuse. “I don’t want this to happen to anyone else,” she said. The young woman remembers arriving at a new school when she was 15 years old. When she…

The former pastor of Divine Savior Catholic Church in Orangevale, California is under investigation by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department for accusations of child abuse. According to new sources, the man served as pastor of the church from 1987 to 2001. The former pastor was removed from public ministry in Milwaukee after the church…

Law enforcement arrested an assistant principal after she allegedly had sex with three high school students. According to The Los Angeles Times, the 45-year-old woman was arrested by Hemet Police on suspicion of several offenses, including sexual battery, abnormal sexual interest in children, oral copulation, and sending harmful/inappropriate material via an electronic device. The…

The Boy Scouts of America, one of the nation’s largest and most prominent values-based youth development organizations, has seemingly become a popular target for sexual predators. However, a recent investigation revealed that officials neglected to report hundreds of cases of alleged sexual abuse between 1970 and 1991. In an attempt to reconcile their lack…