Criminal
Aug. 7, 2023
Church has duty to warn students of abuse danger, judge rules
“There is no California case law that imposes a specific duty to school districts to warn, train or educate students as to the dangers of sexual abuse,” Jon J. Daggett of Hiroshima Daggett in Rancho Cordova argued for the defendants.
A Los Angeles County judge overruled a demurrer by the Seventh-day Adventist Church Friday in a case alleging child sexual abuse by a faculty member at a church-run school in the 1990s.
Superior Court Judge Malcolm Mackey rejected arguments by the defense that the church had no relationship with or duty to the students. Mackey found that the church-run school, like several other establishments, under the law has a duty as an employer of th...
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