Sexual Abuse Case Results
The California window for the Statute of Limitations has closed. Anyone under 40 years old can come forward with no questions asked. After that point there are exceptions.
2026
$14.85 million
settlement
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), for sexual abuse of multiple minors by teacher Mark Berndt
2026
$3.5 million
settlement
City of Whittier Police Department Explorers Program, for sexual abuse of multiple minors
2026
$2 million
settlement
Emmaus Lutheran Church in Alhambra, California, for sexual abuse of multiple minors by employee Frank Miller
2026
$760 thousand
settlement
Capuchin Franciscan Order of California and St. Francis High School of La Cañada-Flintridge, for sexual abuse of a minor by Father Christopher Kearney
2025
$13.925 million
settlement
American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) and Santa Barbara County, for sexual abuse of multiple minors by coach Terrence Stevens
2024
$880 million
settlement
Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, for sexual abuse of multiple minors by multiple priests
2023
$122.5 Million
settlement
with City of Santa Monica for Sexual abuse of minors by Police Department Employee Eric Uller
2022
$3.75 Million
Settlement
on Behalf of two adults sexually abused as children by Catholic Priest Carlos Rene Rodriguez
2021
$54.9 million
Settlement
City of Santa Monica, for sexual abuse of multiple minors by police department employee Eric Uller
2019
$38 million
settlement
City of Santa Monica, for sexual abuse of multiple minors by police department employee Eric Uller
2018
$4.0 Million
settlement
Jane Does (3) v. Irwindale Police Department; City of Irwindale; Daniel Camerano; and Learning for Life, Inc.
2017
$2.75 Million
settlement
Jane Doe 1 v. City of Irwindale, Learning for Life, Inc. Police Explorer Program, Irwindale Police Department
2017
Largest Police Explorer settlement on record
In 2017 Anthony DeMarco negotiated a settlement with the City of Irwindale, CA for $2.75 Million. The settlement was related to a case of sexual abuse by an Irwindale police officer who was involved in the department’s Police Explorers program. The settlement quickly became the largest single settlement, among hundreds across the country, paid to an individual plaintiff who was abused as a Police Explorer Scout.
2016
$5.7 Million
settlement
Jane Does 1-4 v. Alhambra Unified School District and Jose Jesus Mosqueda
2016
$1.1 Million
settlement
Juan Doe v. Capuchin Franciscans, the Diocese of Baker, Oregon for abuse committed by Father Luis Jaramillo
2016
$1.0 Million
settlement
Jane Doe v. the Vincentian Catholic Order of Priests and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles for sexual abuse by Father Carlos Rene Rodriguez
2015
Confidential
settlement
Confidential settlement for a victim of Father Alejandro Castillo, a Catholic priest who ministered in the San Bernardino Diocese and the Los Angeles Archdiocese in the 1990’s and 2000’s.
2015
Confidential
settlement
Settlement for four victims of Los Angeles Unified School Teacher Vance Miller for a sum the school district required to be kept confidential.
2014 • 2011
Confidential
settlement
For 8 victims of Pastor Franklyn Brundige, a former pastor with the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, in Bell Gardens, California. The settlement amount was required to be kept confidential by the church Defendants.
2010
10,000 church records
In 2010 Anthony M. DeMarco secured the release of over 10,000 pages of Catholic Priest personnel files from the Archdiocese of San Diego. This was the first time that the Catholic Church was ordered by the court to make pedophile priest records available to the public. He would force the Dioceses of Orange, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles to do the same totaling over 50,000 pages of church records that detail the sexual abuse scandal.
2007
$660 Million Settlement
Working as Plaintiff’s Liaison Counsel in multiple clergy abuse cases against the Catholic Church in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Riverside, and Imperial Counties. Anthony DeMarco directly represented more than 350 survivors of clergy abuse by Catholic clergy and was intimately involved in obtaining more than $1.0 Billion in settlements.
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