Student who fathered his teacher’s child received huge settlement

A scholar who fathered his instructor’s baby has obtained a first-of-its-kind, seven-determine payout.

The boy, who cannot be named, become paid $6 million by way of the neighborhood school district in Redlands, California, on Saturday, the la instances suggested.

He become “manipulated” by means of 29-yr-antique Laura Whitehurst, a court docket heard, but he wasn’t her only sufferer. Whitehurst, who served six months in jail, changed into arrested in July, 2013, and charged with forty one counts of illegal intercourse acts concerning 3 college students.

Whitehurst supplied the teen with alcohol and told him on a school trip to Disneyland that she desired to kiss him. The pair had sexual intercourse on a number of activities in her rental following the journey.

The youngster turned into also gift in the course of the beginning of the pair’s baby, one Whitehurst said was “a miracle”.

“bodily, I experience ill to my stomach thinking about the manipulation i used to be subjected to,” the youngster advised a court docket whilst urging prosecutors to reject Whitehurst’s plea good buy.

The seven-discern payout was in component decided by means of the faculty district’s failure to act on reports suggesting Whitehurst changed into engaged in relationships together with her college students.
Prosecutors alleged the faculty district investigated reviews however failed to skip on information to police or social employees.