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In the lawsuit filed last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the unnamed plaintiffs accused George Harris Jr. of using his position to groom, harass and abuse them. The district was also named in the suit.
Harris began working for the El Segundo Unified School District in 1981 as a social science instructor, the plaintiffs’ attorney, Ruth Rizkalla, said in the complaint. At that time, Harris was also an aquatics coach at the University of Southern California.
He joined the water polo coaching staff at El Segundo High in 1991 and became head coach in 1997, according to the Los Angeles Daily News. He departed in 2009, reportedly due to an unidentified medical condition, the newspaper reported.
[The plaintiffs attended the school at various times in the 2000's, but...]
The complaint asserts that the El Segundo school district knew of Harris’ alleged misconduct “at least as early as the 1980s” but did not report it to law enforcement.
Harris began working for the El Segundo Unified School District in 1981 as a social science instructor, the plaintiffs’ attorney, Ruth Rizkalla, said in the complaint. At that time, Harris was also an aquatics coach at the University of Southern California.
He joined the water polo coaching staff at El Segundo High in 1991 and became head coach in 1997, according to the Los Angeles Daily News. He departed in 2009, reportedly due to an unidentified medical condition, the newspaper reported.
[The plaintiffs attended the school at various times in the 2000's, but...]
The complaint asserts that the El Segundo school district knew of Harris’ alleged misconduct “at least as early as the 1980s” but did not report it to law enforcement.
