In 2013, the plaintiff, a 14-year-old student, was molested by Richard Daniels, a 54-year-old science teacher at Arroyo High School, in El Monte. The teenager claimed that Daniels abused her again in 2015. A parent notified El Monte police about the inappropriate relationship in 2015. Daniels was arrested, and he pleaded no contest to a felony count of committing a lewd act on a child. He was sentenced to three years in prison. The teenager, identified as a “Jane Doe” plaintiff, sued El Monte Union High School District and its principal, Angelita Gonzales Hernandez, who was assistant principal at a school where Daniels had previously worked. El Monte Union High School District brought a third-party claim against Daniels, but the school district accepted a default against him. Plaintiff’s counsel noted that Hernandez was the assistant principal at Mountain View High School, in El Monte, where Daniels previously worked, and that Hernandez investigated Daniels in 2004 after he was accused of sexually abusing students at that school. Daniels pleaded guilty to a battery charge in relation to the Mountain View High School claims, and Daniels was ordered to stay away from Mountain View High and take sexual compulsive classes as part of his plea. Daniels was then transferred to Arroyo High School, where Hernandez became the principal and where Daniels allegedly molested the plaintiff. Plaintiff’s counsel argued that by transferring Daniels to Arroyo High School, instead of firing him in 2004, Hernandez and the school district failed to protect the students, including the plaintiff. Defense counsel noted that Daniels was tenured and that the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing recommended a three-day suspension after Daniels’ Mountain View High School court case settled. Counsel also argued that it was not foreseeable to the school administration that Daniels would molest the plaintiff since the last similar allegations were made in 2004., The plaintiff claimed that she was sexually assaulted by Daniels while she was a teenage student at Arroyo High School. She alleged that after the abuse, she self-harmed herself and attempted suicide. She is now 20 years old and continues to undergo therapy. The plaintiff sought recovery of damages for emotional distress.