Molested student to get $1.5 million in Desert Sands lawsuit
According to an attorney representing a victim of former Desert Sands Unified school teacher and convicted child molester Robert Keith Bryan, Desert Sands Unified School District will pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of his client. The settlement agreement was accepted by the girl’s attorney last week.
Attorney David M. Ring says, “This settlement will allow this girl to gain closure and move on with her life. She has been living with the Robert Bryan criminal case and then the civil case for several years now. She is a courageous young lady. Her perseverance in seeing this case to the end has shed a shining spotlight on Desert Sands School District’s outrageous conduct in this tragic affair.”
Robert Keith Bryan, 64, pleaded guilty in May to four of 12 felony counts of lewd acts on a child that had been filed against him in 2012, along with four of five misdemeanor counts of molesting a child.
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The Palm Desert resident, who taught fourth-graders at Gerald R. Ford Elementary School, admitted guilt on the day his jury trial was set to proceed at the Larson Justice Center in Indio.
A 10-year-old girl was the first to allege that Bryan touched her private parts over her clothes while she was in his classroom during the 2011- 12 school year.
This was the third suit brought against Bryan and the Desert Sands Unified School District, one of which has already been settled for $650,000.
The District had no comment.
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