What happened to you at Centennial High School was not okay, and a Riverside judge said so about five of you.

Start with what's settled. Summer Hansen, who'd taught special ed at Centennial High School in Corona for five and a half years or so, pleaded guilty in February 2015 to every felony count the Riverside County District Attorney had filed against her. Sixteen. Five boys at the school, May 2012 to May 2013. Come April, the judge sent her to state prison. Five families sat in that courtroom. And the district? As far as the public record shows, nobody has ever asked Corona-Norco to answer for its part. Not once. If you were at Centennial in those years, we wrote this for you.

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You were one of the five. The criminal case is closed; that is the district attorney's side of it. Nothing on the public record says a claim was ever brought against the district for any of you.
You were never one of the five. Sixteen counts is what a prosecutor could file and prove. Corona police said in June 2013 that they believed there were more boys, and asked parents at the school to ask. Some never answered.
You weren't in her class. None of the five were. She taught a life-skills class; the boys the DA counted met her elsewhere on campus, one of them at Saturday school.
It was texts and photos, not the rest of it. Three of the sixteen counts she pleaded to were for sending harmful material to a minor. That counts.
You are 28 or 30 now and figure that was a lifetime ago. California's deadline for this runs to your 40th birthday. You have years.
You're a parent, a brother, a friend asking for someone who can't. Reach out anyway.

The Centennial High School record: the arrest, the charges, the plea, the sentence, and when

We didn't write what's below. Corona police, the Riverside County District Attorney, a Superior Court judge and the reporters in the room did, and we link to every one. We don't add to it. Where something was only alleged, we say so; where it was pleaded to in open court, we say that.

June 20, 2013

A Thursday afternoon. Corona police arrested Summer Michelle Hansen, 31, who taught special education at Centennial High School. Two days earlier, on the Tuesday, detectives had been told a student was in a relationship with her. The district put her on leave. There were other victims under 18, police said, already found. Parents of boys at the school were asked to sit their sons down and ask. CBS Los Angeles.

August 13, 2013

This is the day the Riverside County District Attorney filed: 16 felony counts, unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and unlawful oral copulation with a minor, two kinds of charge and nothing else. Five victims under 18. All of them students at the school; none of them her own students. Exposure if convicted: up to 13 years in state prison. San Bernardino Sun / AP.

March 4, 2014

She gave up her preliminary hearing and was ordered to stand trial. Prosecutors described conduct from May 2012 to May 2013 in her classroom, in a utility room on campus, in her car parked near one boy's home, and at another boy's house. By then the district had her on unpaid leave and her credential was suspended. One boy told investigators she had offered him sex as a prize for playing well in a baseball game. NBC Los Angeles.

February 27, 2015

Hansen pleaded guilty to all 16 counts. Not a negotiated deal with the prosecutor: a plea straight to the judge, who required her to admit every count. One parent told reporters he was disappointed. Ridiculously low, he called the offer. KTLA.

April 3, 2015

Three years in state prison, from Judge Becky Dugan of Riverside County Superior Court, for seven counts of oral copulation of a minor, six of statutory rape and three of distributing pornographic material to a child; lifetime registration as a sex offender; a permanent bar on working with minors. One mother stood up and told the judge what three years was. A slap on the wrist. NBC Los Angeles.

We checked this on September 12, 2026, and the newest thing in it is from April 3, 2015. When something new gets filed or decided, it goes in here within 72 hours, with the link.

Who can be held responsible in a Centennial High School lawsuit

The district. A teacher who does this to a student answers for herself, and Hansen has, in criminal court. A school where the same teacher could be alone with boys who weren't even in her class, in a classroom and a utility room on campus, for a year, answers for the five and for anyone who wasn't counted. That is the theory a civil lawyer would plead: negligent supervision, negligent retention, a duty to protect students that a public school in California owes and cannot hand off. Because Corona-Norco Unified, the district Centennial belongs to, is a public body (51,510 students on the state's 2024-25 count) a few things change, and a lawyer will walk you through them: some kinds of damages a jury can't award against a public school, but no cap on the rest, and for anything after 2009 no government-claim hurdle before you file.

What the record says the school knew is thin, and we won't pad it. A student came forward to staff at Centennial on a Tuesday in June 2013; staff called Corona police the same day; she was arrested Thursday. The district's assistant superintendent said every teacher had passed an FBI and Department of Justice background check. What nobody has yet put in front of a court is the year before that Tuesday: who saw what in that classroom, who noticed the car, who was told and what they did with it. That is discovery, and it only happens if someone files.

Nobody has. We searched the public record and found no civil action against Corona-Norco Unified over Hansen, no settlement, nothing. Five boys, sixteen counts, a plea to every one, and the district has never been asked. A lawsuit would be the first.

Your deadline: the California statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse at a public high school

Until you turn 40, or five years from the day you understood what it did to you, whichever is later. That is California's rule for anyone abused as a minor (Code of Civil Procedure 340.1), and for Centennial the arithmetic is simple. The boys in the criminal case were between 14 and 17 in 2012 and 2013, so they are around 27 to 31 now, with something like nine years still to run before the first of them turns 40. Born in 1987 or later and the door is open on age alone. Born earlier, it turns on discovery, which is a conversation, not a date.

Because the district is a public body, one more thing matters, and here it cuts your way: for abuse after the start of 2009 you do not have to file a government claim first (Government Code 905(m)). Everything Hansen pleaded to was 2012 and 2013. If your years at Centennial were before 2009 and it was someone else, a lawyer needs to look at your facts before anyone promises you anything; the rules for that cohort are tighter. And for anything after January 1, 2024, there is no deadline at all.

Plainly: nobody from the Centennial classes of 2012 through 2016 is anywhere near out of time. What runs out isn't the calendar. It's the texts, the photos, and who still remembers what the adults in that building saw.

Your situation still qualifies even if

You never told a soul. Five families did, and you watched what it cost them in that courtroom.
You were one of the boys the police asked parents about in June 2013, and your parents never asked.
You liked her. That is in the record too; the judge called it a plan.
It never went as far as what was in the charges. Three of the sixteen counts were photos and messages.
You got in trouble at school, or after. It has no bearing here.
You live somewhere else now. Most of the class of 2014 does.

Schools covered

Centennial High School at 1820 Rimpau Avenue in Corona, and anything that ran under its name. Saturday school. Athletics, the special education program, off-campus team events, all of it. A different Corona-Norco Unified school (Corona, Norco, Santiago, Roosevelt in Eastvale)? The questions still work. Answer them and say where.

Questions people are asking

Can I sue Centennial High School or Corona-Norco Unified over Summer Hansen?

If you were a minor at the school at the time, which every boy in the criminal case was, California's deadline runs to your 40th birthday, so the answer for the 2012 to 2013 cohort is almost certainly yes. Nobody has done it yet on the public record. The questions above sort out the rest.

She already went to prison. Isn't it over?

The criminal case, yes. She pleaded guilty to all sixteen counts, she was sentenced in April 2015, and that part's done. That was the state punishing her. A civil case asks a different question: what does a school owe the students it failed to protect. Nobody has asked Corona-Norco that question in court.

I wasn't one of the five. Do I count?

Sixteen counts is what a prosecutor could prove, not a count of everyone she reached. Corona police said in June 2013 they believed there were more boys. If you were a student there in 2012 or 2013 and she crossed a line with you, the questions are for you.

What kind of lawyer do I need?

A civil lawyer who sues public school districts for institutional sexual abuse, not only the individual. That is the only kind we work with, and the firm we work with takes California cases wherever you live now.

How much does a sexual abuse lawyer cost?

Here, nothing. Every case is on contingency. The lawyer is paid only out of what is recovered, and if nothing is recovered you owe nothing. Not for the call, not for the review, not for the case.

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Kerim Eravci · Survivor Advocate · Not a lawyer

I was a victim, and I waited. Not because I didn't know what happened to me (I knew every day), but because I'd decided it was over, mine to carry, nobody's business. When I finally went looking for a lawyer, the answer came back in two words I'd never thought about: statute of limitations. My time had run out while I was busy getting through it.

What that has cost me since is a long story, and I'll tell you the whole thing in private, if you want it. The short version is the reason my name is on this page: I'm here to help people do what I wish I'd done, which is find out where you stand while the door's still open.

I'm not a lawyer. I read what you send, I call you once, on your terms, and nothing gets filed unless you say so. Ask sooner than I did.

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