A Southern California school district will pay $2.25 million to a victim of sexual abuse by a teacher who became pregnant by another student.
The settlement brings the total amount paid by the Redlands Unified School District to Laura Whitehurst’s victims to $8.25 million since her arrest in 2013, the Southern California News Group reported.
The latest lawsuit was filed in 2021 by a former Redlands High School student who claimed Whitehurst took advantage of him in 2007 and 2008, when he was just 14 years old, according to the plaintiff’s attorney.
Whitehurst later admitted to having sexual relations with him up to 15 times inside her San Bernardino classroom and in her apartment.
The English teacher and soccer coach pleaded guilty to having unlawful sexual relations with three former students, one of whom she shares a baby with.
The Redlands Unified School District will have paid Laura Whitehurst’s victims $8.25 million in total since her arrest in 2013.AP
She served six months in jail and registered as a sex offender in 2014, the same year she gave birth.
The school district last agreed in 2016 to pay another victim, the father of the teacher’s son, $6 million for the abuse he endured.
Whitehurst gave birth after having sex with the student for a year, when she was just 16 years old.
Former Citrus Valley High teacher Laura Whitehurst speaks with an attorney on July 31, 2013, in Superior Court in San Bernardino, California. AP
The boy claimed Redlands Unified officials knew about his relationship with the teacher and failed to warn his family.
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