Since its inception twenty years ago, Estey & Bomberger attorneys have specialized in helping young survivors of school sexual molestation.  There have been several institutional child sex abuse cases in the news recently, and our team of aggressive attorneys is already helping several survivors and their families.  As the Charlie Mercado story unfolds, Estey...

Over the past 20 years, Estey & Bomberger attorneys have worked closely with young victims of child sexual molestation. This aggressive team of lawyers is currently working with the families of survivors in several other child sex abuse cases. The lawyers expect to be working with young victims in the Keith Silvia case as...

Estey & Bomberger attorneys have been fighting on behalf of victims of child molestation and their families for over 20 years. Our legal team is currently working with the family of a victim in the McGee case, and is committed to fighting on behalf of any other young victims in Round Rock and East...

Mar Vista High School Sex Abuse Arrests Three Mar Vista High School sex abuse arrests have the school reeling following the arrest of a tutor, substitute teacher and ROTC instructor along with a football coach. The walk-on assistant football coach Edward Aaron Mendoza was arrested for having an inappropriate relationship with a 9th grade student....

Shane Alan Kent, 56, a former teacher at Orange Elementary, will stand trial for four felony counts of lewd acts committed upon a child under the age of 14. It's alleged that Kent "inappropriately touched" the first victim, a young female, which triggered the initial investigation. Three more victims came forward, claiming that Kent...

Four adult men have come forward to accuse Dennis Hastert, former Speaker of the House, of sexually molesting them. The abuse allegedly took place while Hastert was a wrestling coach in Illinois in the 1960s and 1970s. Dennis Hastert is accused of molesting five victims, all of whom were wrestling students at the school...

Joseph Faraone, 68, is accused of sexually abusing a 50-year-old female patient while he worked at a Hudson Valley nonprofit called the Cerebral Palsy Association, which is a residence for brain-damaged or brain-injured persons with mental disabilities. The victim was a veteran of the military and whose mental capacity was reduced to that of...

David Park sex abuse lawsuits accuse the school district of failing to properly supervise the former Los Altos High School teacher and ignoring blatant “red-flag” behavior. The San Diego law firm of Estey Bomberger has filed two separate lawsuits in the David Park sex abuse case. In December of 2015, David Park, a 37-year-old...

Shannon Fosgett sex abuse case highlights societal attitude against male victims Shannon Fosgett is facing a criminal trial after she pleaded not guilty to eight counts of child molestation. The former Murrieta High School earth sciences teacher is accused of engaging in sexual relations with one of her 16-year-old male students. Now, as Shannon Fosgett’s trial approaches, the...

An 80-year-old Orange County man was arrested April 5 on suspicion of child sex abuse. Douglas Dale Whinery, a native of Tustin, was an active missionary and was involved in several churches in Foothill Ranch, Santa Ana, and Yorba Linda. He even flew a personal jet to Indian reservations to do missionary work there....