{"id":2027904,"date":"2023-09-11T12:41:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-school-district-to-pay-2-25-million-to-settle-suit-involving-teacher-who-had-students-baby\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T12:42:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:42:12","slug":"california-school-district-to-pay-2-25-million-to-settle-suit-involving-teacher-who-had-students-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-school-district-to-pay-2-25-million-to-settle-suit-involving-teacher-who-had-students-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"CA School District to Pay $2.25M to Settle Suit Over Teacher&#8217;s Student Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-school-district-to-pay-2-25-million-to-settle-suit-involving-teacher-who-had-students-baby%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2027904&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>California School \u200cDistrict Settles Lawsuit Involving Teacher&#8217;s Sexual Abuse<\/h2>\n<p>A \u200dSouthern California school district has agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle a lawsuit concerning a\u200b teacher who became pregnant by one of her students, whom she was accused of sexually abusing. This settlement brings \u200bthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wwe-says-former-ceo-vince-mcmahon-made-two-additional-hush-money-payments-worth-5-million\/\" title=\"WWE Says Former CEO Vince McMahon Made Two Additional Hush Money Payments Worth  Million\">total amount paid<\/a>\u200b by the Redlands Unified School District to Laura Whitehurst&#8217;s victims to \u2062$8.25\u2062 million since her\u200b arrest \u200bin 2013.<\/p>\n<p>In a previous case, the district had already agreed to pay $6 million to \u200ba former student who\u2062 impregnated\u2062 Ms. Whitehurst while she was his teacher.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"border-comp-divider mb-4 mr-4 w-full max-w-[500px] border px-5 py-4 text-[16px] leading-[20px] text-[#262626] md:float-left\" id=\"in_article_related_stories\">\n<div class=\"mb-3 font-sans text-[16px] font-semibold uppercase leading-[19px] text-[#2F2F2F]\">Related Stories<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/prosecutors-ask-judge-to-revoke-bond-of-mother-of-virginia-boy-who-shot-his-first-grade-teacher-5487253\">Prosecutors Ask Judge to\u2062 Revoke Bond of Mother of Virginia Boy Who Shot His First-Grade\u2064 Teacher<\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">9\/7\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\">\n          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/prosecutors-ask-judge-to-revoke-bond-of-mother-of-virginia-boy-who-shot-his-first-grade-teacher-5487253\"><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/family-of-south-carolina-teacher-killed-by-falling-utility-pole-seeks-better-rural-infrastructure-5482792\">Family of South Carolina Teacher \u200cKilled by Falling Utility\u200d Pole Seeks Better Rural\u2063 Infrastructure<\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">8\/29\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\">\n          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/family-of-south-carolina-teacher-killed-by-falling-utility-pole-seeks-better-rural-infrastructure-5482792\"><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The most recent lawsuit, filed in 2021, was brought\u200b by another former student who claimed to \u2062have been \u200bpreyed upon and sexually abused\u200d by Ms. Whitehurst at Redlands High School\u200b in 2007 and\u2062 2008\u200d when he was\u200c just\u2063 14 years old, according to the plaintiff&#8217;s attorney, Morgan Stewart.\u200c Ms. Whitehurst confessed to the police in 2013 that she had\u200c engaged\u2064 in sexual activity with the student on multiple occasions,\u2063 both in her\u200d classroom and \u2063at her apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Redlands Unified spokesperson Christine Stephens stated\u200d that the district was aware of the settlement but could not provide further\u2063 comment due to confidentiality agreements.<\/p>\n<p>In the previous lawsuit, the student\u2064 who fathered Ms. Whitehurst&#8217;s child alleged that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-overwhelming-support-for-school-choice-in-n-c\/\" title=\"Poll: Overwhelming support for school choice in N.C.\">school officials<\/a> were \u2064aware of their relationship \u200dbut failed to inform \u2063his family.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Whitehurst gave birth in 2014 after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-school-district-to-pay-2-25-million-to-settle-suit-involving-teacher-who-had-students-baby\/\" title=\"CA School District to Pay .25M to Settle Suit Over Teacher's Student Pregnancy\">year-long\u2062 sexual relationship<\/a> with the student, \u2062which \u200bbegan when he was 16.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of her actions, Ms. Whitehurst, an English teacher and soccer coach, pleaded guilty\u200b to unlawful \u2063sex with \u200dthree former students. She served six months in jail and is now a\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-latest-arrest-its-clear-that-drag-queen-story-hour-is-a-haven-for-child-predators\/\" title=\"After Latest Arrest, It\u2019s Clear That \u2018Drag Queen Story Hour\u2019 Is A Haven For Child Predators\">registered sex offender<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California school district will pay $2.25 million to settle a lawsuit involving a teacher accused of sexually abusing students and becoming pregnant by one of them. This settlement brings the total amount paid by Redlands Unified School District to Laura Whitehurst&#8217;s victims to $8.25 million since her arrest in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2027905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}