Youth Shelter – Brittany, 16, screams, “All you need to know is that I hate this place and I hate the law!” Photo by Barbara Davidson/Los Angeles Times. Source of the image.
Decades of failures leave LA County facing up to $3 billion in sex abuse claims
BY REBECCA ELLIS
Los Angeles Times
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As California lawmakers prepared to pass a law that would give child sex abuse victims a new window to file lawsuits, the bill’s top backer recalls most of the resistance coming from entities with notoriously troubled histories : school districts, universities and youth sports groups, along with some of their insurance companies.
Los Angeles County “didn’t show up,” said former Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego), who sponsored the Child Victims Act.
But three years after the law went into effect, LA County, which is responsible for facilities meant to protect and rehabilitate the region’s youth, has become one of the biggest alleged institutional offenders.
Two weeks ago, in an otherwise dry budget document, county officials presented numbers that surprised even some of California’s most seasoned sex-abuse lawyers. County officials predicted they could be forced to spend $1.6 billion to $3 billion to settle roughly 3,000 allegations of sexual abuse that allegedly took place in the county’s foster homes, shelters for children and in the camps and probation halls of the 1950s.
The county is preparing to litigate the cases, putting 11 law firms to work on the claims, many of which they can’t investigate, they say, because they no longer have the relevant records. Veteran sex abuse attorneys are calling for an outside investigation, saying even they didn’t realize the full extent of the alleged abuse that occurred at the county facility.
Experts say the volume is unlike anything they’ve heard of in local government. A spokesman for Riverside County says it has had 13 cases associated with the Child Victims Act. Orange County says it has had nine such claims.
There is only one apt comparison, lawyers say: the Catholic Church.
Read the full article at Los Angeles Times.
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Posted on May 10, 2023
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