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Former Arroyo High School Student Wins $5 Million in Sex Abuse Verdict Against Teacher

A Los Angeles jury has awarded $5 million in damages to a former student at Arroyo High School who was sexually abused by a teacher. 

Science teacher Richard Paul Daniels was sent to prison in 2015 for sexually abusing a teenager over a two-year period This week, a jury ruled that the El Monte Union School District must pay $2 million in damages. Daniels is responsible for the other three million.