Why Puyallup schools agreed to $300K payout over claim 8-year-old was abused

By Shea Johnson  Tacoma News Tribune  The Puyallup School District has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit that alleged a second-grade teacher abused an 8-year-old student with autism, Pierce County Superior Court records show. Filed by the student’s parents last year, the lawsuit claimed that a Pope Elementary instructor locked the plaintiffs’ son outside the classroom on multiple occasions, “leaving … Read More

Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center Lawsuit

On October 24, 2025, Connelly Law Offices filed a lawsuit against Defendant Spokane County on behalf of 15 plaintiffs that were victims of childhood sexual abuse by staff at the Spokane Juvenile Detention Center. At the center of the abuse were William “Bill” Lamb and Rafael Gray, two correctional guards who—from the 1980s through at least 2010—groomed, coerced, and sexually … Read More