The Redlands Unified School District has settled for $1.4 million a lawsuit with the first alleged victim of former high school teacher Laura Whitehurst, who sparked a sex abuse scandal after having a child with one of her students.

Whitehurst was sentenced in August 2013 to a year in county jail for sexually abusing one of her former students at Citrus Valley High School, who fathered a child with her, and two former Redlands High School students when she taught there. The disgraced former teacher served six months before she was released under the jail credit system .

Whitehurst was suspected of sexually abusing even more students during her seven-year career as a teacher and girl’s soccer coach at the district, including her first alleged victim from Redlands East Valley High Sch

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