Another lawsuit, filed that same year, alleged that pedophiles at Mater Dei preyed on students in the 1970s.
In the current case, a woman identified only as Jane C.R. Doe accuses Andrade of molesting her beginning in the mid-1990s when she was 16, after she began taking a driver education class from him. They had sex over a period of about 18 months, possibly hundreds of times, in the gymnasium, classrooms, his house and several times in a Las Vegas hotel room, according to the lawsuit.
Doe's lawyers have argued that the school administration reacted slowly to evidence that indicated there was a sexual relationship, and that other allegations of misconduct could show a pattern of high school administrators covering up sexual abuse.
In his deposition taken as part of the lawsuit, Andrade admitted to having sex with Doe. He was fired in 1997 after Mater Dei officials suspected he had had a sexual relationship with the student. Police investigated in 1997 but no charges were filed.
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