School janitor spent 5 years in prison on false charges of child sexual abuse. Now he’s suing
LA TimesThe San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is among those named in a lawsuit by a man acquitted of sexual assault against children. On Monday, he and his wife, Juliette Mondragon de Martinez, filed a lawsuit against San Bernardino County, the Sheriff’s Department, three county detectives, one county attorney and a personal injury lawyer who represented the accuser in a civil case. Martinez — a law-abiding citizen who never had even as much as a parking ticket — was arrested, charged with multiple counts of child sexual assault, publicly humiliated and demonized, and wrongfully prosecuted while being forced to suffer almost five years of incarceration until he was acquitted by a jury of all charges,” the complaint states. The complaint alleges that a Sheriff’s Department detective coerced one of the alleged 6-year-old victims into corroborating claims of assault after he initially denied experiencing any abuse.
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