California’s first openly gay chairman of the state Democratic Party announced Thursday he would resign amid a flurry of allegations that he sexually harassed and inappropriately touched party staff members and activists, particularly young adults. Read More …
Threatened with bad publicity just days before Election Day, San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow politically commandeered a sexual assault case and became a soldier of the Me Too movement, a defense attorney alleged in a court motion this week. Read More …
The Lucia Mar Unified School District cut ties in June with a former girls wrestling coach accused of sexual abuse and paid him $31,812 as part of a settlement agreement. Read More …
Renowned feminist lawyer Gloria Allred has filed suit on behalf of a Nipomo High School student who was allegedly abused by one of the school’s former wrestling coaches. Read More …
San Luis Obispo police have arrested an Arroyo Grande man whom investigators say may have been responsible for both incidents last month in which a suspect broke into a home early in the morning and tried to sexually assault a female victim. Read More …
In similar fashion to an incident earlier this week in SLO, an armed man broke into a San Luis Obispo home early Friday and attempted to sexually assault two women inside the residence. Read More …
A 39-year-old man whom Atascadero police arrested on Monday for stabbing one person and kidnapping another is connected by DNA evidence to a sexual assault of a Cal Poly student last year. Read More …
A Cal Poly instructor who was known by administrators to have a history of sexual misconduct told a female student with whom he was meeting in his office to take off her clothes and run naked through campus halls, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in San Luis Obispo Superior Court. The teacher also inappropriately touched the student and tried to persuade her to let him hypnotize her, the suit alleges. Read More …
A former Santa Maria girls soccer coach pleaded guilty to two sex crime counts involving one of his former players. Fancisco Sanabria pleaded guilty to misdemeanor molesting a child under 18 Read More …
Lucia Mar Unified School District officials knew about a bus driver allegedly sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl, but they did not believe the girl was telling the truth, a San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office detective testified in court on Monday. District officials then cleared the bus driver, and he continued abusing the girl, according to the court test Read More …