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In an ongoing child abuse investigation involving a teacher from the Los Angeles Unified School District, a number of Suspected Child Abuse Reports (“SCAR”) have surfaced. These records are among many documents that LAUSD claims to have destroyed in 2008. The recent discovery has escalated the controversy over alleged retention of information throughout the…

On Monday, May 2nd, a special education teacher’s aide allegedly assaulted several staff members and students at Van Nuys Elementary School in the San Fernando Valley. It was reported that the female teacher’s aide, 56-year-old Linda Hovanec, began acting erratically and throwing chairs shortly after school convened one morning. Last week, Hovanec was arraigned…

Monday morning brought with it a bizarre set of events at one San Fernando Valley elementary school. Shortly after drop-off time at Van Nuys Elementary School yesterday morning, a female teacher’s aide allegedly began assaulting fellow staff members and several students. According to authorities, the teacher’s aide was acting erratically and began throwing chairs….

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has officially shut down a special panel appointed to investigate the Miramonte Elementary School scandal, which has caused considerable controversy in the past several years. The new move is raising more questions. According to officials, LAUSD had formed the commission in 2012 shortly after Miramonte Elementary School…

Officials from the Oxnard Police Department reported the arrest of an Oxnard teacher earlier this week under suspicion of misdemeanor child annoying. The teacher – 41-year-old Jorge Arellano – was a math instructor at Oxnard High School. He was taken into custody at his home on Wednesday for child annoyance of at least one…

Earlier this week, officials from the Brentwood Union School District agreed to an $8 million settlement with the families of eight special needs children who were verbally and physically abused by a teacher at Krey and Loma Vista elementary schools . The federal lawsuit, which was filed in August 2013, alleged that the teacher,…

In what is now a source of legal contention, reports have been made which suggest that a 10-year-old boy with Autism was repeatedly bullied and physically abused by his instructional aide for a total of 6 weeks. At the end of the 6-week-long mistreatment, the child – a student of the Los Angeles Unified…

Following yesterday’s arraignment of an Orange Country baseball coach who allegedly sent sexually explicit text messages to two teenage boys, local authorizes are encouraging other potential victims, as well as anyone with more information about the pending investigation, to come forward. Edwin Alan Wikstrom of Anaheim, a volunteer coach for Katella High School’s baseball…