CALIFORNIA
Santa Maria Sun
BY DAVID MINSKY
The criminal case against Shane Villalpando concluded in 2013, but now officials at St. Joseph High School—Villalpando’s former high school—are the targets of a lawsuit surrounding the former student’s behavior at the time.
Filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in November 2014, the lawsuit alleges that administrators at the high school failed to report Villalpando’s “sexually deviant behavior and dangerous propensities” leading up to the alleged rape of a female St. Joseph student that occurred in June 2011.
Villalpando was convicted of three felony counts of unlawful sex with a minor in July 2013. The jury at the time couldn’t decide whether he was guilty of rape, but he nonetheless served a year in jail, and was required to register as a sex offender during the five-year term of probation he also received.
St. Joseph’s former dean of students John Walker, former principal Joseph Myers, current Principal Joanne Poloni, and the Rev. Ed Jalbert are listed as defendants in the current lawsuit. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles is listed as the principal defendant because St. Joseph falls under the purview of the Catholic Church.
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