Child Injury Lawyer Blog
By Scott A. Marks, Attorney and David Wolf, Attorney
Published by Child Injury Lawyer Network
A 61-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of molesting 3 girls at his wife’s day care facility in Riverside County, California. Ruben Avalos was arrested while he was picking up children after school and transporting them to his wife’s day care center, Carlos Family Child Care center in Moreno Valley. Avalos was suspected of molesting the girls after the initial allegations were made at Riverside County Regional Medical Centers. The alleged victims are under 14-years-old. Maria De La Luz Carlos, Avalos’ wife, stated she and Avalos have been married for 13 years and he sometimes helps her run her day care business. To see more details on this story please see Husband accused of molesting girls at wife’s day care center. Avalos will be entitled to an attorney and to defend himself against the accusations made against him. Victims of child abuse, whether sexual or physical, may suffer lifelong consequences resulting from the abuse. Therefore, it is imperative that day care facilities provide children with a safe and nurturing environment. Children should be encouraged to and provided the type of atmosphere that allow them to voice any concerns they have with day care workers or providers. Once suspicions are brought to light a criminal investigation will ensure, stopping the abuse or other inappropriate contact from occurring.
The Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, publicly stated it would filed for bankruptcy in the midst of pending child abuse lawsuits. According to Archbishop Jerome Listecki, the reason for filing for bankruptcy was because the pending sexual-abuse lawsuits could leave the archdiocese with debts it could not afford. However, one lawyer claims it is a delay tactic being used by the church to avoid opening its records to public scrutiny. In fact, Jeff Anderson, an attorney of St. Paul, Minnesota, who has filed 23 lawsuits against the church, stated he thought the bankruptcy filing was done to delay his deposition of Milwaukee Bishop Richard Sklba. Anderson and his clients have been pushing the archdiocese to make public the names of the priests accused of the sexual child abuse and the church officials who protected them.
In Lawrence, Kansas (Douglas County), Richard Gonzalez was convicted of the crimes of
Parents send their children to school with the hope and expectation that the children are well supervised by responsible adults. Unfortunately, according to a recent story posted by The USA Today, sex offenders are getting jobs in the public school system in various States. The article was interesting and quite disturbing. You can read about this problem and see what laws are in place for each State at 
A Fairfax County day care worker was arrested and is being held on a charge that he molested a four-year-old girl. The man was arrested while trying to flee the country. The day care worker was identified as 22-year-old Siyamand Salehzadeh, he was an employee at Minnieland Day care center in the Centreville area of Virginia.
Karl Marshall Walker, Jr., a 38-year-old teacher’s aide, was found guilty of sexually abusing a third-grade student at Bryant Woods Elementary School. Walker’s conviction sets precedent in the state of Maryland for a sex crime conviction without evidence of inappropriate physical contact. Walker worked at the school for over three years. During that time he wrote dozens of love letters to the 8-year-old girl upon which he was convicted. These letters contained Walker’s desire to kiss the girl and requests that she kept the correspondences between them secret.
David Daniel Moore, a 23-year-old daycare worker, was sentenced to almost 17 years in prison by a Multnomah County judge. Moore was charged with the molestation of two different 4-year-old girls at Angela’s Academy (or Angel’s Academy), a Northeast Portland, Oregon childcare facility.
On June 17, the Supreme Court of California ruled a homeowner accused of negligently failing to supervise her son, thus enabling him to repeatedly molest a child at the mother’s home, may be entitled to coverage under her homeowner’s insurance policy. The California high court’s decision was unanimous and the court reasoned that because the mother and son were separately insured under the policy, the claim against the mother might be recovered, even though the “intentional acts” exclusion provision of the policy clearly precluded coverage for the claim against the son.