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Five of Garry Poe’s former students sued the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District, alleging that he had cultivated relationships of trust and mentoring with them while they attended Rolling Hills High School.

They alleged that he sexually assaulted them on a five-week European tour he chaperoned each year after graduation.

A Torrance jury awarded $3.4 million each to three of the women and $1.7 million each to two others.

Five women who said they were sexually assaulted by their high school teacher in the 1980s won a combined $13.6 million judgment Monday after a jury concluded that the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District failed to prevent the abuse.

The Torr

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