Civil Plaintiff
A San Jose School District Will Pay $2 Million to a Sex Abuse Victim
The San Jose Unified School District has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit from a woman who was sexually abused by her Spanish teacher when she was a 17-year-old student in his classroom.
The agreement, announced by the woman’s attorney Thursday, comes more than three years after then-teacher Ricardo Chavarria was arrested by San Jose police officers and later convicted on six counts of sexually assaulting a minor.
Cristina Nolan, an attorney with Manly, Stewart and Finaldi Lawyers who represented the woman, called the settlement a vindication of the harm done to her client and the failure of school officials to protect her.
