
A former California school janitor has filed a lawsuit against San Bernardino County after spending years in jail on false allegations of child sexual abuse.
In January 2019, Pedro Martinez was arrested and charged with molesting a 6-year-old boy at Maple Elementary School in Hesperia. He was charged with 11 counts of child sexual abuse. Despite a lack of physical evidence, Martinez was incarcerated until his trial in December 2023, where he was acquitted on all charges, KTLA reported.