A judge has ordered a mental examination of a man who is now in his mid-30s and alleges a female Paramount Unified School District teacher sexually molested him more than 20 years ago, telling him that he had to submit to her advances if he wanted good grades.
On Friday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maurice A. Leiter granted the district's motion to compel the psychological evaluation of the plaintiff, who was born in 1986 and is identified only as John GD Doe.
"Plaintiff has placed his mental condition at issue in this action by claiming emotional distress damages," Leiter wrote. "This is good cause to order an independent mental examination."
The mental assessment will be conducted by psychologist Julie M. Brovko and will take place over two days.
"Dr. Brovko may not inquire about plaintiff's sexual history with individuals other than the alleged perpetrator," according to Leiter.
The plaintiff alleges the PUSD district negligently supervised and retained teacher Gillian Melba Duran, who was Doe's language arts teacher at Alondra Middle School. He maintains she sexually abused him from 2001-02. Duran was later convicted and is not a defendant in the suit, according to the plaintiff's court papers.
"Utilizing her position as a Paramount Unified School District teacher, Gillian Duran routinely sexually groomed plaintiff while he was her eighth-grade student," the suit brought in February 2022 states.
Duran regularly touched the then-14-year-old boy in a sexual way in the classroom in front of the other children by massaging his shoulders, and when they were in seclusion, she told him how much she liked him, the suit states.
"Duran regularly drove plaintiff alone in her car to and from school while sexually molesting him," the suit alleges. "She also drove plaintiff from school to her home, where she gave him alcohol and sexually assaulted him."
Duran additionally abused Doe in her classroom during the lunch hour, the suit states.
"For the entirety of plaintiff's eighty grade year, Duran's conduct was disregarded by school officials ... despite her routine absence from numerous faculty meetings and required faculty events," the suit states.
Duran considered the immigrant Doe vulnerable because he did not live with his biological parents and went back and forth to school on public transportation when the teacher did not drive him, the suit states.
"He was shocked at his teacher's sexual advances during his first ride home, but she told him that the status of his grades would be dependent on his compliance with her," the suit states.
Doe later reported the abuses to his father, who in turn told police, the suit states. Duran was arrested and charged with 12 counts of child sexual abuse, according to the suit. She confessed to the crimes, was sentenced to a jail term and ordered to register as a convicted sex offender when she was released, the suit states.
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