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CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Five women are suing the Clovis Unified School District and Fancher Creek Elementary School.
They assertion their second-grade teacher and convicted kid enactment abuser-- Neng Yang-- sexually abused them arsenic children from 1998 to 2012.
"Most of the kids, I think, were 8 oregon nine, 9 oregon 10 years old, truthful truly young," explained Jason Amala, the lawyer for the women.
Amala says astir children who were sexually abused don't travel forward.
"They're frightened to death. To impeach an adult, to accidental thing astir adults," helium stated.
Yang taught astatine Fancher Creek earlier moving to Freedom Elementary-both wrong the Clovis Unified School District.
In 2012, Yang was arrested for sex crimes against a 7-year-old student, including signaling the acts successful a locked schoolroom astatine Freedom.
He is presently serving a 38-year condemnation for those crimes.
"He was allowed, from what we tin tell, to maltreatment kids for much than a decade, I guess, astir 15 years," Amala said. "And from what we tin archer truthful far, helium was abusing 1 oregon much kids successful his schoolroom each twelvemonth that helium was a teacher."
Just past week, 5 of Yang's alleged victims came guardant successful a lawsuit-- claiming Yang groped them, coerced immoderate into oral sex, and forced 1 to pleasance him among different intersexual acts.
"At slightest 2 of our clients who volition attest that they complained to the school, to Fancher Creek officials, and thing meaningful was done," Amala explained. "One of them volition attest that she was fundamentally blamed and accused of making it up."
Clovis Unified said successful a connection Tuesday morning, "To date, Clovis Unified has not been served with the suit you are asking astir and if/when we are we volition analyse the allegations it contains and respond accordingly."
Amala says the territory should beryllium served successful the coming days.
He is hoping to get answers for his clients similar however this could person happened, and for truthful long.
Amala says helium expects much of Yang's victims to travel forward.
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