Note that this is not a criminal case -- Barry Smolin has not been arrested & charged -- but rather a civil lawsuit fied anonymously by "Jane Doe": Barry Smolin, 60, English teacher at Alexander Hamilton High School, Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles, California, lawsuit regarding alleged sexual abuse of minor LAUSD Sued For Allegedly Not Investigating Teacher Accused Of Grooming, Sexually Abusing Student A lawsuit said that more than a decade ago, Barry Smolin had an inappropriate relationship with a female student, beginning when she was a first-year student through her senior year. Kristine Lazar ... Continue reading... https://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/video...accused-of-grooming-sexually-abusing-student/ Find in Internet Archives [google]LAUSD Sued For Allegedly Not Investigating Teacher Accused Of Grooming, Sexually Abusing Student[/google] LAUSD Teacher Accused Of Grooming, Sexually Abusing Teen Girl A lawsuit said that more than a decade ago, Barry Smolin had an inappropriate relationship with a female student, beginning when she was a first-year student through her senior year. Kristine Lazar ... Continue reading... https://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/video...cused-of-grooming-sexually-abusing-teen-girl/ Find in Internet Archives [google]LAUSD Teacher Accused Of Grooming, Sexually Abusing Teen Girl[/google]
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Smolin Wikipedia article as of 2 May 2021: Barry Smolin, also known as Mr. Smolin (born April 20, 1961) is an American radio host, teacher, composer, and writer. He is currently teaching at Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, and is currently the host of a radio program on KPFK. He was accused of sexual harassment by a former student on April 27, 2021. Career Radio The Music Never Stops From 1995 to 2012, Smolin was the host of The Music Never Stops, a psychedelic radio show on KPFK in Los Angeles, California[1] for which Smolin won the first ever Jammy Award for "Best Radio Show" in 2000.[2] Smolin's program was also nominated for an LA Weekly Music Award in 2004 in the "Best Radio Show" category.[3] The Music Never Stops began as a program featuring live recordings of the Grateful Dead, but after the death of Jerry Garcia; Smolin expanded the scope of the show to include contemporary jam-rock and miscellaneous psychedelia, paying special attention to music being made by musicians in Los Angeles. The program has been covered in Relix magazine[4] and Jambands.com. Head Room Smolin is currently the host of the program Head Room on KPFK,[5] heard every Sunday Night from 8pm-10pm. Teaching Smolin's teaching career has been featured in articles in Time[6] and the Los Angeles Times,[7] as well as in the Larchmont Chronicle,[8] and the Library Foundation of L.A.'s "My Moby-Dick" tribute.[9][10] From 1987 to 1992, Smolin taught English at Fairfax High School (the school Smolin himself graduated from in 1978) in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Since leaving Fairfax in 1992, he has been on the faculty at Alexander Hamilton High School, teaching English in the Hamilton Humanities Magnet program. Music Pop Music As a songwriter, Smolin has composed music for the Showtime television series Weeds, with his song "The Earth Keeps Turning On" appearing in Season 3's Episode 7, entitled "He Taught Me How To Drive By"[11] as well as on the Weeds Season 3 Soundtrack album. Under the performance moniker Mr. Smolin he has released four albums, At Apogee (2004) and The Crumbling Empire Of White People (2007) (both produced by Tony Award winning composer/dramatist Stew, best known for his musical Passing Strange), a Los Angeles song-cycle entitled Bring Back The Real Don Steele (2009),[12] and a collaboration with Double Naught Spy Car entitled Heaven's Not High (2013). In 2015, Smolin released two singles: "Fairfax High School" about his alma mater and "The Man I Met Once." Experimental Music Since 2016, Smolin has primarily composed experimental pieces, both instrumental and spoken word. With Double Naught Spy Car, he set chapter 1 of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake to music as part of the Waywords and Meansigns Project,[13] which was released in 2016 as was an album of the project's instrumental tracks called "That Tragoady Thundersday." In September 2017, he released an instrumental album entitled The Sooterkin Library, a trio project that Smolin describes as "12-Tone Avant-Freak Mongrel Psycho-Tonk.".[14] Writing Smolin is the author of 2 novellas: Narcissus In The Dark (2012),[15] whose narrator is God sentenced to eternity in a dungeon and whose consciousness thinks new universes into being while sorting through the detritus of his troubled past, and the experimental prose project Wake Up In The Dreamhouse,[16] composed one sentence at a time on Twitter. In May 2011, Smolin released a volume of selected poetry covering the years 1988–2010 entitled Always Be Madly In Love.[17] His most recent fiction project is a Trilogy entitled The Miranda Complex, Volume 1 of which was published in 2016[18] with Volume 2 following in 2017,[19] and the concluding Volume 3 in 2018.[20] The Miranda Complex chronicles the unconsummated romantic relationship between Lance Atlas and Miranda Savitch, 2 teenagers in 1970s Los Angeles. Personal life Sexual harassment On April 27, 2021, a woman filed a lawsuit under the name "Jane Doe" against the Los Angeles Unified School District and Smolin, accusing Smolin of sexually assaulting and grooming a minor student and accusing the district of inadequately responding to the abuse. The complaint alleges that Smolin began giving her special attention when she was a freshman at Alexander Hamilton High School in 2009, giving her music, books, and eventually alcohol and drugs. The lawsuit then alleges that the attention escalated into a physical and sexual relationship by the time she was a senior. The complaint also alleges that Smolin and that other students and adults knew about their relationship, referring to it as “a worst-kept secret at Hamilton". In particular, the complaint contends that a teacher "walked in and Smolin literally threw plaintiff off of him and onto the seat next to him", and accused one other teacher of being aware of the abuse.[21][22] Smolin has not issued a response to these allegations.[21] Discography At Apogee (2004), produced by Stew[23] The Crumbling Empire Of White People (2007), produced by Stew[24] Bring Back The Real Don Steele (2009)[25] Heaven's Not High (2013)[26] Fairfax High School (single, 2015)[27] The Man I Met Once (single, 2015)[28] Mutt and Jute (single, 2016)[29] Finnegans Wake Chapter 1 (Waywords and Meansigns, 2016)[30] That Tragoady Thundersday (2016)[31] The Sooterkin Library (2017)[32] The Mookse & The Gripes (2018)[33] Mysterium Fidei (2018)[34] The Mole With A Hole In The Whole Of Him (2018)[35] The Five Decades (2018)[36] The Four Mysteries (2018)[37] My Lunch With Lautréamont (2018)[38] Baby Methuselah (2019)[39] Ancients Link With Presents As The Human Chain Extends (2019)[40] Always Be Madly In Love (2019)[41] unspoken (2019)[42] The Age of Endarkenment (2019)[43] Before You Know It (2019)[44] Water Signs (2019)[45] The Day I Met Blassie & Tolos (2019)[46] The Humpback of Nostradamus (2019)[47] Play Free (2019), with Vince Meghrouni[48] The Fantastic Catch (2020)[49] Eyelid Movies (2020)[50] Outside Norms (2020)[51] Say No More (2020)[52] Antediluvian Future (2020)[53] Lurch (2020)[54] Smoke on the Altar (2020)[55] The Minerva Syndrome (2020)[56] Remember My Chains (2020)[57] Doo-Dads (2020)[58] The God Paradox (2020)[59] Havdalah Sonata (2020)[60] That's What They All Say (2020)[61] Pretend To Play (2020)[62] In the Name of Zarking Fardwarks (2020)[63] Slide Down My Rainbow (2020)[64] Hypostasy (2020), with Vince Meghrouni[65] Strange Fire (2020)[66] Great Seizure's Ghost (2020)[67] Radio Andromeda (2020)[68] Frenching (2021)[69] Ode To Billy Jack (2021)[70] Maps To Stars Homes (2021)[71] A Jew In Space (2021)[72] Underworld Orchestra (2021)[73] Ersatz Classics (2021)[74] We Are The Ancestors (2021)[75] When A Weasel Steals Your Chumetz (2021)[76] I Knew It By The River (2021)[77] A Trespass Offering (2021)[78] Tender Buttons (2021)[79] A Pocketful of Poesies (2021)[80] Deep In The Sea-Meant Pond (2021)[81] We Hear Voices (2021)[82] Bibliography Wake Up In The Dreamhouse (2011) Always Be Madly In Love (2011) Narcissus In The Dark (2012) The Miranda Complex Volume 1: Munchkinland (2016) The Miranda Complex Volume 2: Poppies (2017) The Miranda Complex Volume 3: The Man Behind The Curtain (2018)
Adult Woman Sues LAUSD Over Allege Sexual Abuses 29 April 2021 A 29-year-old woman is suing Los Angeles Unified, alleging she was sexually molested years ago by her English teacher while she was a student at Alexander Hamilton High School and enrolled in the same magnet program as the married teacher's three children. The plaintiff is identified only as Jane Doe in the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit, which alleges sexual abuse of a minor, sexual harassment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, failure to report and various causes of action for negligence. She seeks unspecified compensatory damages as well as punitive damages against the teacher, Barry Smolin, a co-defendant in the ... https://kfiam640.iheart.com/content/2021-04-29-adult-woman-sues-lausd-over-allege-sexual-abuses/ [archiv]https://kfiam640.iheart.com/content/2021-04-29-adult-woman-sues-lausd-over-allege-sexual-abuses/ [/archiv] [google]Adult Woman Sues LAUSD Over Allege Sexual Abuses[/google]
LAUSD Teacher Accused Of Grooming, Sexually Abusing Teen Girl 30 April 2021 A Southern California teacher at Hamilton High School, Barry Smolin, is accused of grooming a female student and eventually sexually abusing her, and now there is a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District and the accused teacher. A lawsuit filed on Tuesday contends that more than a decade ago, Smolin’s “inappropriate relationship with (the) plaintiff was the worst kept secret at Hamilton.” The complaint alleges that Smolin groomed the teen, beginning when she was just a first-year student, giving her music, books, and eventually alcohol and drugs. In the 2009 and 2010 school year when the plaintiff was ... https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/04/30/lausd-lawsuit-barry-smolin-accused/ [archiv]https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/04/30/lausd-lawsuit-barry-smolin-accused/ [/archiv] [google]LAUSD Teacher Accused Of Grooming, Sexually Abusing Teen Girl[/google]
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Lawsuit alleges sex abuse by teacher at Hamilton High School 1 May 2021 A former student has sued Los Angeles Unified School District, alleging she was sexually abused by her teacher at Hamilton High School beginning in 2009. The teacher, Barry Smolin, is also named in the suit, which was filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. He has not faced any criminal charges related to the allegations and it’s unclear if there was a police investigation. A spokeswoman for LAUSD said in a statement that the district hadn’t been served with the suit and doesn’t comment on pending litigation. “However, the safety and well-being of our students remains our top priority,” ... https://www.latimes.com/california/...-sex-abuse-by-teacher-at-hamilton-high-school [archiv]https://www.latimes.com/california/...-sex-abuse-by-teacher-at-hamilton-high-school [/archiv] [google]Lawsuit alleges sex abuse by teacher at Hamilton High School[/google]
