LOS ANGELES (CA)
CBS Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has been named in a new lawsuit that claims it failed to protect a student from being sexually abused by a volunteer softball coach.
Epifanio Nevarez, a former coach at St. Didacus Elementary School in Sylmar, was convicted of lewd acts with a child under 14 in September 2013.
The suit claims the Archdiocese, the archbishop and the school did nothing to protect children at St. Didacus and allowed Nevarez “to come onto campus and victimize the minor child.”
“Specifically, he came into contact with this minor and took her home from the school to have her participate in ‘sex games’ with Nevarez,” the suit alleges.
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