A lawsuit filed on September 8, 2026 in Los Angeles County Superior Court by a client of Lanier Meyer McBride Blair LLP alleges that the Los Angeles Unified School District failed to protect a student at Menlo Avenue Elementary School from sexual abuse by Sean Tillett, a supervisor/teacher in the school's after-school program, who is named as a defendant. The complaint alleges the district allowed him to openly take the student away from the other children in the program to secluded areas of the campus, and failed to supervise him, act on warning signs, or report as required by California's child abuse reporting law (CANRA).

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What the complaint alleges

“based upon information and belief, TILLETT would openly take the Plaintiff alone from the after-school program … and TILLET was enabled or otherwise allowed to exert authority over the Plaintiff that permitted him to take her from the rest of the children in the after-school program.”

(Complaint ¶ 26)

“failing to monitor, secure, and control classrooms, offices, and other secluded areas of the campus, including by permitting classrooms and other spaces to remain unlocked and unmonitored during and after school hours … and failing to act upon openly observable red flags related to TILLETT’s grooming and inappropriate conduct towards the Plaintiff.”

(Complaint ¶ 37)

“Before and during his abuse of Plaintiff, the DISTRICT and DOES 1 through 50 knew or should have known or otherwise had constructive notice of numerous warning signs that their after-school supervisor/teacher, TILLETT, was unfit and that TILLETT posed an unreasonable risk of childhood sexual assault to the Plaintiff and other minors in his charge.”

(Complaint ¶ 26)

These are allegations in a pending lawsuit. They have not been proven, and no court has made any findings.

Abused at Menlo Avenue Elementary School?

If you were a student at Menlo Avenue Elementary School or another LAUSD school and something happened to you, you are not alone, and it was not your fault. You can sue a California school district any time before your 40th birthday, without filing a government claim first, and you can file as Jane or John Doe.

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