The Tamalpais Excessive Union Excessive Faculty District is dealing with one other lawsuit from a graduate who claims he was sexually abused by former tennis coach Normandie Burgos.
The lawsuit comes within the aftermath of a $10 million jury verdict in opposition to the district in a associated case involving a special plaintiff.
Burgos, 58, is serving a possible life jail sentence ensuing from a molestation case within the East Bay.
The brand new lawsuit includes a 38-year-old resident of Santa Clara County. He alleges the abuses occurred through the 1999-2000 faculty 12 months whereas he was a pupil at Tamalpais Excessive Faculty in Mill Valley.
The unnamed plaintiff known as “John Doe” within the go well with, which was filed by a legislation workplace in Beverly Hills. The go well with names the varsity district and Burgos as defendants.
After “grooming and befriending” the plaintiff, the go well with alleges, Burgos invited the teenager into his workplace underneath the pretense of checking his pulse. Burgos then reached into the teenager’s pants and groped his genitals, the go well with says.
The plaintiff alleges that the varsity district failed to guard him in opposition to Burgos regardless of receiving prior complaints about his predatory conduct. He's searching for unspecified damages on claims of childhood sexual abuse, intentional infliction of emotional misery, negligent hiring and supervision of an worker, failure to report suspected youngster abuse and negligent supervision of a minor.
The case was filed in Marin County Superior Court docket. An preliminary listening to is scheduled for Dec. 5.
“We can not touch upon present litigation,” Tara Taupier, the superintendent of the varsity district, stated Friday.
In Could, a Marin County jury awarded $10 million to Alex Harrison, a former Tam Excessive tennis participant who sued the varsity district over alleged sexual abuses by Burgos.
Harrison, who attended the varsity from 2000 to 2004, stated the district failed to guard him from Burgos regardless of proof the coach was partaking in misconduct. Harrison sued the varsity district in 2020 after a brand new state legislation gave victims of childhood intercourse crimes extra time to file lawsuits.
The varsity district is difficult the decision within the 1st District Court docket of Attraction.
An try to prosecute Burgos in Marin County in 2010 resulted in a mistrial. The prosecution alleged crimes in opposition to two college students, together with Harrison, but additionally alleged a sample of habits involving 5 college students courting to 2002.
Burgos went on to begin a tennis program in Richmond, which finally led to his 2019 conviction in Contra Costa County on 60 counts of molesting gamers there. A decide sentenced him to 255 years to life in jail. An appeals court docket reversed six of the lesser prices.
Burgos is incarcerated at Mule Creek State Jail in Amador County.