Another victim of former Piedmont Hills High School track coach Chioke Robinson is coming forward with her story of sexual abuse.
In a newly filed amended lawsuit, Jane Doe 2 claims that Robinson began sexually grooming her in the 2009-2010 school year and that Robinson sexually abused her starting in the 2010-2011 school year and continuing through the 2011-2012 school year.
The lawsuit states that the abuse escalated from inappropriate massages to sexual intercourse.
The Los Gatos Union School District and a former fifth grade teacher, Joseph Brian Houg, are being sued by the parents of a 10-year-old child who was sexually abused by Houg.
Due to the boy’s age and the sensitive nature of the allegations, the suit was filed anonymously on behalf of “John Doe.”
In 2020, sexual misconduct claims were reported against a former Thacher School headmaster and two teachers. As a result, the school retained Munger, Tolles & Olson, a Los Angeles law firm, to investigate the claims. The investigation included interviews with over 120 current and former students, parents, faculty, and staff.
One victim reportedly described being allegedly raped by a teacher in the 1980s when she was 16 years old. The sexual abuse progressed into more violent encounters.
Another victim reportedly described how a teacher/soccer coach acted inappropriately by creating “an exclusive clique of students with a secret ‘initiation ritual’ that included asking girls embarrassing personal questions about their bodies.” In addition, this same teacher would allegedly give massages to female students while also groping their bodies.
Yet another swimmer has come forward alleging disgraced coach Andy King sexually abused her after he was first exposed as a pedophile.
The allegations are contained in a new lawsuit filed by the law firm of Cerri, Boskovich & Allard that says King used his position of authority “to manipulate and sexually assault over a dozen female swimmers over a 30-year period,” including “A.H.”
A new lawsuit filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court alleges that former Piedmont Hills High School track coach Chioke Robinson repeatedly sexually abused a young female student both on and off school grounds.
The civil suit was filed on behalf of “Jane Doe,” who chooses to remain anonymous, by San Jose-based Cerri, Boskovich & Allard.
The New Haven Unified School District has agreed to pay $2.25 million to three young girls who were sexually abused by their third-grade teacher, Michael William Howey, when they were eight years old. Two of the girls, who were represented by the San Jose law firm of Cerri, Boskovich & Allard, will share equally in the settlement with the third girl, who was represented by another law firm.
The first complaint about Howey’s inappropriate behavior came during the 2002-2003 school year when he was teaching at Cesar Chavez Middle School but school officials ignored it.
The first year of high school is always exciting, a sign that you’re almost a grown up who will soon be forging your own path in life.
That’s how sexual assault survivor “Jane Doe” felt when she joined the Los Gatos High School Girls’ Track team in 1998: the world was her oyster and her future was bright.
San Jose, CA – Jan. 5, 2021 – The law firm of Cerri, Boskovich & Allard is announcing the filing of a sexual abuse lawsuit against Valley Christian High School (Santa Clara County Superior Court) and its former coach, Greg Marshall.
The lawsuit alleges that Coach Marshall began sexually abusing girls on his varsity girls’ basketball team almost as soon as he was hired in the 2001-2002 school year.
Joseph Houg, a teacher at Blossom Hill Elementary School in Los Gatos and director of the Los Gatos Youth Theater, was arrested on September 3rd for felony lewd and lascivious acts and several counts of annoying and molesting a minor. According to Cupertino Today, Joseph Houg also goes by Brian Houg within the community. Houg is 50 years old.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff Department began a months-long investigation after receiving a tip on May 14th that Houg was making sexual advances over Zoom. According to news reports, a 13-year old boy claimed Houg made him feel uncomfortable during a one-on-one Zoom meeting. The boy said Houg persistently asked to see his ab muscles. Despite trying to change the subject multiple times, the boy complied. The victim told police that another child had a similar experience during a one-on-one Zoom meeting call when Houg asked to see a pair of his underwear. As detectives investigated the two leads, another victim contacted authorities to report Houg touched him sexually in 2008. The victim at the time was 12 years old and a fifth-grade student. According to police reports, “the third victim said that Houg pulled the victim’s shorts down during physical education class and touched his abdomen and genital area.” Houg was a fifth-grade teacher and worked at the same elementary school for the past two decades.
Detectives served a search warrant on Houg’s San Jose home. The detectives seized multiple electronic storage devices. They also found “a plethora of behavior indicative of a pedophile.” According to ABC News, Detective Vince Mitre said there is “a video of him pulling a student’s shorts down, recording it, it appeared that the recording device was kind of hidden to a certain extent.” The sheriff department’s statement also included that “Houg had multiple recordings of Zoom meetings of his class performing yoga exercises, videos of young boys changing clothes and videos and images of children in their underwear.”
When former Michigan State and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nasser admitted to sexually assaulting ten young gymnasts, he was sentenced to up to 175 years, meaning he’s expected to die in prison.
Since the Nasser scandal broke in 2016, at least 250 women say they were sexually assaulted by Nasser beginning in 1992.
One more victim has come forward: Gymnast Terin Humphrey, who won two silver medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
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