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The emerging details from the Penn State scandal sound all too familiar to Dallas trial lawyer Charla Aldous, who won a $9.3 million verdict this past September against the Episcopal School of Dallas based on the school's role in a sex abuse case. Aldous represented a young woman known as Jane Doe II, who was only 16 years old when her 34-year-old ESD teacher began the process known as "grooming" before initiating a sexual relationship with the student. "It's an ugly thing and administrators at both schools seem to want to just sweep things under the rug rather than face them head on," Aldous says. "In both the ESD and Penn State cases, you're dealing with highly respected schools that seem to be more concerned with their own reputations than they are the welfare of children." For more information, contact Mark Annick at 800-559-4534 or mark@androvett.com.