District to Pay Victims of Coach's Sex Abuse $7.9M

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The Anaheim (Calif.) Union High School District has agreed to pay $7.9 million to five former Kennedy High School female water polo players to settle a lawsuit that alleged district and school officials and employees concealed from students, parents and law enforcement that a Kennedy coach had sexually abused students at the school, according to The Orange County Register.

As reported by the Register, the settlement comes nearly five years after a Kennedy coach was first alerted of potential sexual misconduct by Joshua Owens, a water polo coach, and almost four years since Owens was cleared by school officials of a second set of sexual abuse allegations following a 15 to 20 minute investigation by Kennedy officials in which they made no attempt to interview the alleged victim or whistleblower.

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