"Five women who said they were sexually assaulted by their high school teacher in the 1980s won a combined $13.6 million judgment Monday after a jury concluded that the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District failed to prevent the abuse. The Torrance jury found that district administrators were negligent in allowing longtime Rolling Hills High School English teacher and baseball coach Garry Poe to groom and, ultimately, sexually abuse teenagers."
"Poe's former students sued the school district in 2022, alleging that he had cultivated relationships of trust and mentoring with them while they attended Rolling Hills High School, only to sexually assault them on a five-week European tour he chaperoned each year after graduation. Now in their 50s and 60s, the five women took the witness stand during a four-week trial, framing the annual Europe excursion as an alcohol-soaked tradition with a dark side they experienced firsthand."
Five women who attended Rolling Hills High School accused longtime English teacher and baseball coach Garry Poe of cultivating trust and then sexually assaulting them during annual five-week European trips he chaperoned after graduation. The women sued the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District in 2022, alleging district negligence in permitting Poe's conduct. A Torrance jury found administrators negligent and awarded a combined $13.6 million, with the district likely liable for at least $6.46 million. The women, now in their 50s and 60s, testified that the trips were alcohol-soaked and that Poe used his position to groom and abuse students.
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