Claim Filed Against MDUSD For Failing To Prevent Alleged Child Molestation

Joseph Martin

A claim filed Wednesday against the Mount Diablo Unified School District alleges that administrators failed to protect an 11-year-old boy from molestation at the hands of Joseph Martin, 45, a fifth grade teacher at Woodside Elementary School.

The claim states that Woodside Elementary Principal Jenny Reyes Cronan and district officials “not only failed to report the abuse to legal authorities, as was mandated duty under state law, but also failed to take any investigatory or remedial action against the perpetrating teacher, and failed to take any or sufficient action or implement measures to prevent sexual abuse, such as that suffered by the Claimant, from occurring in the future.”

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