What happened to you at Joaquin Moraga was not okay, and the district has paid for it.

Two teachers at Joaquin Moraga Intermediate. Dan Witters, whose abuse of girls ran from 1990 to 1994 and who died in 1996, never charged. Julie Correa, who was convicted in 2011 and went to prison. Behind them a district office that, the lawsuits showed, had been told about Witters and covered for him. The women who sued were paid, and the last of those checks cleared in 2014. This page is for whoever never came forward, and it is honest about where that leaves you.

ClosedThe known claims are settled and the last one closed in 2014. California's deadline for people over 40 runs on a discovery rule, five years from the day you understood what it did to you, and that is a lawyer's question, not a web page's. We don't run a quiz here. We do take the call.

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Nothing is open here yet.

The cases that were filed have been paid. If you were at Joaquin Moraga in those years and never came forward, the only door left is the discovery rule, and whether it opens for you depends on facts we can't know from here. Talk to someone anyway; the call costs nothing and nobody files anything.

Talk to someone anyway

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This applies to you no matter what

You were in Witters's class and never told anyone. The women who sued describe the same years, the same classroom, the same silence.
You are over 40, and so is everyone from that cohort, which is why the age deadline is beside the point. What matters is the discovery clock, and that turns on when you understood what happened to you, not on your birthday.
You said something to a teacher or the principal back then and it went nowhere. That is the cover-up the settlements were built on, proven well enough that the district paid.
It was Correa, not Witters. She was convicted, and the district paid for her too.
You're a sibling, a classmate, a spouse asking for someone who can't. Reach out anyway.

The Moraga record: the teachers, the cover-up, the settlements, and when

We didn't write what's below. NBC Bay Area, Patch and the plaintiffs' lawyers did, and we link to every one. We don't add to it. These cases are closed.

May 15, 2013

The district's insurer paid $2.85 million to Kristen Cunnane, who was abused by both Witters and Correa. Correa had been convicted and was in prison. Three more Jane Doe suits were pending. NBC Bay Area.

September 3, 2013

A third plaintiff settled for $1.8 million. Patch.

June 18, 2014

Two women settled, seven million dollars apiece. Witters, hired in 1989, had died in 1996 without ever being charged; the suits said the district failed to report an earlier complaint about him and then covered up that failure. NBC Bay Area.

2014

The plaintiffs' firm named the administrators it said had concealed the complaints. Taylor & Ring.

We checked this on September 11, 2026, and the newest thing in it is from 2014. When something new gets filed or decided, it goes in here within 72 hours, with the link.

Who was held responsible, and who could still be

The district, and it was. Its insurers paid $18.65 million across three settlements, and the reason the number was that large is that the cases were about the cover-up, not only the teachers. Witters is dead. Correa served her sentence.

For anyone who never sued, the district is still the only defendant, and the only way in is the discovery rule. That is a real door; it is also a narrow one, and a lawyer who has read the Moraga file is the person to ask whether it opens for you.

Your deadline: what is closed, and what may not be

Closed: the age deadline. California gives survivors of childhood abuse until 40, and everyone Witters taught is past it.

Possibly open: five years from the day you understood what it did to you. That is the second half of Code of Civil Procedure 340.1, and it does not care how old you are. Whether it applies is about what you knew, when, and what you connected to what. It is argued case by case, and it is why we say talk to someone rather than fill in a form.

Plainly: we are not going to tell you there is a lawsuit waiting. We are going to tell you the truth, which is that one conversation settles whether the door is open, and it costs nothing to have it.

Your situation still qualifies even if

You never told a soul, and you watched your classmates go through it in public.
You figured the women who sued took care of it. They took care of theirs.
You're fifty and you think this is a young person's fight.
You don't want to relive it for a lawyer to tell you no. We will tell you no ourselves, kindly, if that is the answer.
You live somewhere else now. Most of the class of 1993 does.

Schools covered

Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School and the Moraga School District's other campuses in the Witters and Correa years, and district sports and camps. A different Lamorinda school? Talk to someone and say where.

Questions people are asking

Can I still sue the Moraga School District?

The age deadline has passed for everyone from those years. The discovery rule may still apply, and that is a question for a lawyer who has your facts, not for us or for a form.

Why does this page say Closed?

Because we tell the truth about the record. The filed cases were paid by 2014 and nothing has been filed since. We keep the page so that anyone searching the name finds the facts and a phone number rather than an ad.

Do I even need a lawyer?

One who has argued the discovery rule for adult survivors of childhood abuse in California. That is the kind we work with, and the first conversation is about whether there is anything to do, not about signing anything.

Does the call cost anything?

No. Nothing does, here. If there is a case, it is on contingency; if there isn't, you've lost twenty minutes and gained an answer.

Who sees your form

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.

Kerim Eravci is not an attorney. He's a survivor.

What happens next. Three steps, nothing more until you say so.

You answer a few questions. Nothing is filed. Nothing starts.
A survivor calls you, once. Not a robot, not a call center. Someone who has been where you are.
You decide. You find out your options. If you want to stop there, you stop there.

How this works

ME2 Survivors Alliance protects the heart. Licensed California attorneys do the legal work. We are not lawyers and we don't pretend to be.

You never pay a dollar

Every case is on contingency. There is no charge for the call, the review, or the case. The firm is paid only out of a recovery, and if there is no recovery you owe nothing.