Guilty! Jason Leon, Tarzana, California (arrested Feb 2013)

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    Jason Leon, 32, history & communications teacher at Gaspar de Portola Middle School, Los Angeles Unified School District, Tarzana, California, "charged with molesting three girls"

    ABC Local KABC: Tarzana middle-school teacher charged with molesting girls (Feb 4 2013)

    Jason Leon, 32, was arrested Monday and held on $35,000 bond on four misdemeanor counts of child annoyance and two counts of battery against three victims between the ages of 13 and 14 ... The Los Angeles Police Department Juvenile Division's Sexually Exploited Child Unit began an investigation on June 19, 2012, after receiving a crime report the day previous. "One victim last year came forward and said that she was inappropriately touched by this teacher. Subsequently, on the same day, another victim came forward and said the same thing and pointed to two different occasions. That investigation led back to an event that happened in 2010 with another 14-year-old being inappropriately touched ..."

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    KTLA: Tarzana Middle School Teacher Accused of Molesting Students (Feb 4 2013)

    The investigation began after a 13-year-old female student reported that her teacher, Jason Leon, 32, had allegedly touched her inappropriately back in June. Three days later, another 13-year-old female student of Leon’s reported that on two days in June Leon had engaged in similar behavior. Charges also include allegations by a third female student of the school who claims to have been similarly abused by Leon on several occasions in 2010 when she was 14 years old ...
     
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    LAist: Middle School Teacher Accused of Molesting Three Students (Feb 4 2013)

    32-year-old Jason Leon was arrested today and is accused of molesting two 13-year-old girls and one 14-year-old girl at his place of work, Gaspar De Portola Middle School in Tarzana, according to City News Service. Two of the three girls attended the school at the time of alleged molestations last June. Leon taught history and communications at Portola until last June, when he was removed from his duties at the campus and an investigation launched into the allegations. At the time, Leon was reassigned to the LAUSD's main office.
     
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    L.A. Times: Teacher is charged with child molestation, battery (Feb 5 2013)

    City prosecutors Monday charged a Tarzana-area middle school teacher with more than half a dozen counts of misdemeanor child molestation in connection with the alleged sexual battery of three girls, authorities said. Jason Leon, 32, who taught at Portola Middle School, is being held at Van Nuys Jail in lieu of $35,000 bail. He faces four counts of child molestation and three counts of battery. If convicted on all charges, Leon could face a maximum sentence of up to 51/2 years and $26,000 in fines, the Los Angeles city attorney's office said.
     
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    CBS Local Los Angeles: Tarzana Middle School Teacher Charged With Molesting 3 Students (Feb 4 2013)

    Jason Leon, 32, has been charged with four counts of child molestation and three counts of battery. On June 15, 2012, a 13-year-old student at Gaspar Portola Middle School reported that Leon touched her inappropriately. Three days later, another girl, also 13, reported that he had also engaged in similar behavior that same day. A third girl claims she was abused by Leon several times in 2010, when she was 14 years old.
     
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    L.A. Weekly: Jason Leon: Portola Middle School Teacher Charged With Molesting Teen Girls (Feb 4 2013)

    An L.A. Unified School District teacher was arrested today for allegedly molesting students, namely two 13-year-olds and one 14-year-old who attend Gaspar Portola Middle School in Tarzana, authorities said. Thirty-two-year-old Jason Leon was taken into custody this morning based on a warrant, the L.A. City Attorney's office announced this afternoon ... Leon was being held at the LAPD's Van Nuys jail in lieu of $35,000 bail, prosecutors say. If convicted he could face five-and-a-half years behind bars, they added.
     
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    L.A. Observed: Portola Middle School teacher arrested for molestation (Feb 4 2013)

    This stuff just keeps happening. Jason Leon, 32, a teacher at the Tarzana middle school, was taken into custody today on an arrest warrant and charged with four counts of child molestation and three counts of battery. The victims were girls aged 13 and 14 at the time of the alleged crimes.
     
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    KTVU: LA teacher charged with child molestation (Feb 4 2013)

    Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich says 32-year-old Jason Leon was charged Monday with multiple counts of child molestation and battery of students at Gaspar Portola Middle School. After a 13-year-old girl alleged Leon touched her inappropriately on the last day of school in June 2012, another 13-year-old came forward with a similar story. nother girl claims she was similarly abused by Leon in 2010, when she was 14.

    San Francisco Examiner: LA teacher charged with child molestation (Feb 4 2013)

    CBS 47: LA teacher charged with child molestation (Feb 4 2013)
     
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    KPLC TV: Teacher arrested for allegedly molesting students (Feb 5 2013)

    Thirty-two-year old Jason Leon has been charged with four counts of child molestation and three counts of battery. Back in June, a 13-year-old student reported that Leon touched her inappropriately. Three days later, another girl, also 13, reported that he had also engaged in similar behavior that same day. A third girl claims she was abused by Leon several times in 2010, when she was 14 years old.

    WAFB: Teacher arrested for allegedly molesting students (Feb 5 2013)
     
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    Huffington Post: Jason Leon Arrested: Portola Middle School Teacher Arrested On Suspicion Of 'Annoying' 3 Students (Feb 5 2013)

    A teacher from Portola Middle School in Tarzana, Calif. was arrested Monday after a more-than-seven-month investigation into allegations he inappropriately touched students. Jason Leon, 32, was booked on four misdemeanor counts of child annoyance and two counts of battery, according to the LAPD. The investigation stems from complaints two students made on June 18, 2012 -- the last day of the school year, notes NBC Los Angeles. Leon, a history and communications teacher, was not allowed to return to class the following year, but he wasn't arrested until this week.
     
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    Five years probation & two months on a chain gang! :D

    CBS Local Los Angeles: Tarzana Middle School Teacher Gets 5 Years Probation After Pleading Guilty To Molesting Students (May 15 2013)

    A Tarzana middle school teacher has been sentenced to five years probation after admitting Wednesday to having inappropriate contact with students. Jason Leon, 32, was arrested February 4 on suspicion of molesting three female students at Gaspar Portola Middle School. He pleaded guilty to one count each of misdemeanor battery, misdemeanor child abuse causing mental suffering and luring of a minor under 14, according to the City Attorney’s Office. Leon must forfeit his teaching credential and has been ordered to have no unsupervised contact with minor girls and to stay away from all elementary, middle and high schools during his probation. Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Christine Ewell also said Leon will be required to enter outpatient alcohol treatment for one year, spend 60 days on a Caltrans road crew, attend 52 sessions of individual therapy and write apology letters to the parents of his victims to meet the terms set forth by the court.
     
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    L.A. Unified to pay $320,000 settlement in teacher misconduct case

    The Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to pay $320,000 to the family of a girl who was the victim of misconduct by a teacher when she attended Portola Middle School in Tarzana. The district agreed to the settlement this year; it was announced after the conclusion of court proceedings, said attorney Paul Mones, who was co-counsel for the victim. The case was one of several that came to light after the high-profile arrest of a teacher at Miramonte Elementary, southeast of downtown, for sexual misconduct involving dozens of students. Arrests at a handful of other schools followed as ...


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    LA Unified to pay $320K in teacher misconduct case

    The Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to pay $320,000 to the family of a girl who was the victim of misconduct by a teacher when she attended Portola Middle School in Tarzana. Attorney Paul Mones, who was co-counsel for the victim, says the district agreed to the settlement earlier this year. The case involved history teacher Jason Leon, who was arrested in February 2013 on suspicion of having inappropriate conduct with three students. The alleged abuse involved two 13-year-olds in June 2012 and one 14-year-old in June 2010. Leon pleaded guilty to charges including misdemeanor battery and child ...


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    LAUSD To Pay $320K Settlement To Family Of Girl Abused By Portola Middle School Teacher

    The Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to pay $320,000 to the family of a girl who was the victim of misconduct by a teacher when she attended Portola Middle School in Tarzana. Attorney Paul Mones, who was co-counsel for the victim, says the district agreed to the settlement earlier this year. The case involved history teacher Jason Leon, who was arrested and charged in February 2013 on suspicion of having inappropriate conduct with three students. The alleged abuse involved two 13-year-olds in June 2012 and one 14-year-old in June 2010. Leon pleaded guilty to charges including misdemeanor battery ...


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    Payouts:
    • $200 million (inc. legal fees) -- Mark Berndt, Miramonte Elementary
    • $40 million -- Paul Chapel, Telfair Elementary
    • $320,000 -- Jason Leon, Portola Middle School
    • $58 million -- Robert Pimentel, De La Torre Elementary
    • $6.9 million -- Forrest Stobbe, Queen Anne Place Elementary
    Also mentioned:
    • Peter Gomez
    • Armando Gonzalez
    • Jaime Jimenez
    • Michelle Yeh
    • William Webb

    Teacher abuse payouts top $300 million as L.A. Unified misses warning signs

    Jaime Jimenez:
    In a recent court hearing, one young man after another claimed that former Franklin High football coach Jaime Jimenez befriended them during summer practice before 9th grade, then sexually abused them. But it’s not the allegations against Jimenez that are at the center of a lawsuit filed this month against the Los Angeles Unified School District. It’s about whether school officials once again missed — or ignored — warning signs about Jimenez that prolonged the alleged abuse. The nation’s second-largest school system has been plagued in recent years by a series of cases in which officials missed indications of teacher ...

    Robert Pimentel:
    Complaints against former teacher De La Torre teacher Robert Pimentel spanned a decade. His supervisor, former district Principal Irene Hinojosa, fielded concerns about Pimentel touching students in 2002, when she documented a conference with the teacher about touching and slapping girls’ buttocks and touching their calves. The teacher admitted the conduct, with the excuse that he was on medication, which increased his sex hormones, according to the documents. Three years later, Hinojosa received a search warrant from the Newport Beach police requesting “Mr. Pimentel’s employment and personnel files” because of an investigation into Pimentel’s alleged abuse of a minor who ...

    Mark Berndt:
    The district’s most expensive abuse case involves Mark Berndt, a former teacher at Miramonte Elementary School south of downtown L.A. The district has spent $200 million on claims made by students, and more cases are outstanding. The size of settlements are also creeping upward. Those first Miramonte claims cost the district about $500,000 each in 2013. Later, similar cases crossed the million-dollar mark. Last week’s payouts in the Pimentel case averaged about $3 million per student. The district last week also resolved suits related to former Telfair Elementary teacher Paul Chapel for about $30 million, bringing the total payouts in ...

    Peter Gomez:
    Other potentially costly cases are working their way through the legal pipeline, including that of Jimenez and former Franklin drama teacher Peter Gomez, who was convicted of sexually abusing two boys. Both victims sued the district, with one case settled and another settlement pending, according to court records.

    Michelle Yeh:
    Other active claims relate to former San Pedro High substitute science teacher Michelle Yeh, who last year pleaded no contest to unlawful sex and child molestation involving three boys.

    Armando Gonzalez:
    Prosecutors declined to charge former El Sereno Elementary School teacher Armando Gonzalez, but at least three former students have sued the district, alleging he abused them between 2008 and 2010. School officials said that many of the biggest settlements in recent years have come from allegations of abuse that occurred some time ago. They believe some of the reforms are showing results. “These settlements involved cases that happened many years ago,” general counsel David Holmquist said. “This is in our history and we’ve taken steps to correct the problems going forward. Students are much safer today than a decade ago.” ...

    William Webb:
    The district credits this team with recently unearthing alleged abuse from at least 10 years ago, which led to the arrest last week of Asst. Principal William Webb, a case that already has launched another lawsuit. “We welcome new ideas,” Holmquist said. “If there were a reliable psychological test to screen new hires, we’d do that. If somebody has a good idea, bring it on.” In a recent deposition, an L.A. Unified manager testified that, over a seven-month period, the district pulled 40 employees from schools because of sexual misconduct allegations. In 2014 and 2015, the district initiated the dismissal ...


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    A somewhat abbrevated version of the above L.A. Times article:

    Teacher abuse payouts top $300 million as LA Unified misses warning signs

    In the court hearing, one young man after another claimed that former Franklin High football coach Jaime Jimenez befriended them during summer practice before ninth grade, then sexually abused them. But it’s not the allegations against Jimenez that are at the center of a lawsuit filed this month against the Los Angeles Unified School District. It’s about whether school officials once again missed — or ignored — warning signs about Jimenez that prolonged the alleged abuse. The nation’s second-largest school system has been plagued in recent years by a series of cases in which officials missed indications of teacher misconduct, ...


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    http://www.readingeagle.com/ap/arti...00-million-as-la-unified-misses-warning-signs