Jury awards $30 million to mother of boy killed by ex-LAUSD employee
LA TimesL.A. Unified, whose headquarters in downtown Los Angeles is shown, was ordered to pay a woman $30 million after an after-school supervisor killed her child while babysitting him in 2019. In a verdict handed down Aug. 10, the jury said the school district was negligent in hiring, retaining and supervising Tyler D’Shaun Martin Brand, an after-school coach who killed Dayvon Taylor the day after Christmas in 2019. During a civil trial earlier this month, Kenya Taylor’s attorney, Steve Vartazarian, alleged Brand had a checkered employment history and that his client would have never trusted him without the district’s after-school program. “No LAUSD employee had any reason to believe that Martin Brand was a danger to students until the day he was arrested for the murder of Dayvon Taylor,” the district’s attorneys stated in court papers, noting that they had no reports of abusive or violent behavior by him. “While this tragedy happened off campus and during a holiday break, the safety and well-being of all students remains Los Angeles Unified’s top priority,” the district said in a statement.
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