The 14-year-old, known as Jane Doe, was a student at Daniel Pearl Magnet High School in Van Nuys when a special needs aide sexually assaulted her.
A decade later, the Los Angeles Unified School District is being ordered to pay the now 24-year-old woman $13 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed school employees missed opportunities to prevent repeat offender Daniel Garcia from inflicting the abuse.
Doe's attorney, John Taylor, told KNX News' Emily Valdez, "In meeting and grooming the 14-year-old girls, he would ask to see their cell phone. He would put his number in the cell phone and then send himself a text message so that he then had the girl's phone number captured in his phone."
According to Taylor, Garcia was transferred to Daniel Pearl Magnet High School after being fired from Cesar Chavez High for allegedly having a relationship with a 17-year-old student there.
Taylor says Garcia was then transferred to Will Rogers Continuation School before he was eventually fired, charged, and pleaded guilty to one felony.
"The jury found that there were multiple red flags that have been ignored by the school principal and other teachers and that had they acted, they could have prevented the harm and abuse that was perpetrated on this girl," said Taylor.
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