Minor Children v. Little League Baseball, Inc., Western Regional Little League, and East Baseline Little League
The Haggard Law Firm represented minor children who were molested several times by a local baseball coach. The coach admitted to these crimes during criminal proceedings. The Defendants in this cased had the responsibility to check backgrounds and consistently monitor all adults involved with the baseball program but failed to do so. The coach had a history riddled with incidents of child molestation spanning over 23 years. He had several prior convictions for child molestation and lewd and lascivious behavior with children under age 14. He spent time at a mental institution located only miles from San Bernardino, which was known to house mentally ill sexual deviants. Each time he was released, he returned to his addiction of sexually molesting children. The Haggard Law Firm argued the Defendants negligently fostered an environment which was conducive to the infiltration of a sexual predator in their midst, because of which the minor children were exposed and subjected to the sexual molestation by a known pedophile.
