LA schools to pay $52M after students were sexually assaulted by a wrestling coach
Lawyers for children who were sexually assaulted by a high school wrestling coach have settled a lawsuit with the Los Angeles Unified School District for $52 million, they announced Wednesday. Attorneys for more than a dozen children and their families announced that the money has been paid and the suit dismissed. The negligence and sexual battery suit — actually a consolidation of several suits — was filed against the nation's second-largest school district over sexual assaults committed by Terry Gillard, who in 2020 was sentenced to 71 years in state prison after being convicted of molesting nine boys and girls.