LA school district settles for $88M in sex abuse cases

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to pay $88 million to settle teacher sex-abuse lawsuits involving 30 children and their families at two elementary schools, plaintiffs' attorneys announced.

The two veteran teachers involved, Robert Pimentel at De La Torre Elementary in Wilmington and Paul Chapel III at Telfair Avenue Elementary in Pacoima, are each serving long prison terms after pleading no contest in molestation cases.

The schools are at opposite ends of the giant school district and the cases were not connected, but the same law firm represented the victims of both and they were settled at the same time.