The latest lawsuit wasby a former Redlands High School student, now 30, who alleged he was preyed upon and sexually abused at the school by Whitehurst in 2007 and 2008, according to the plaintiff’s Irvine attorney, Morgan Stewart.
“On behalf of our very brave client, we are pleased to get to this resolution. It is unfortunate that Redlands Unified forced him to go through litigation despite knowing that they had failed to protect him from a serial pedophile,” Stewart said in an email Friday. “I would hope they have learned their lesson, but given a significant number of additional recent claims, it is evident that they have not.
The abuse, according to the lawsuit, began when the plaintiff was 14 years old. Whitehurst admitted to police in 2013 she had sex with him 10 to 15 times in her classroom and at her Redlands apartment, according to a police report. Whitehurst subsequently went on to teach and coach at Citrus Valley High School, where she also preyed upon male students, including the one who impregnated her, prior to