Pedro Martinez, acquitted of abusing children at the Hesperia school where he worked as a janitor, has countersued for malicious prosecution and violation of his 14th Amendment rights.
Martinez claims both the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department and the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office coerced false confessions from elementary schoolers.
A separate civil suit filed by students of Maple Elementary School has not been resolved.
“After 22 years of marriage, and without any legitimate evidence and with overwhelming exculpatory evidence, Mr. Martinez—a law-abiding citizen who never had even as much as a parking ticket—was arrested, charged with multiple counts of child sexual assault, publicly humiliated and demonized, and
