The Montecito Union School District soon will go to court to defend itself over alleged sexual abuse by an employee in the 1970s.
Two former students are alleging in a lawsuit that they were sexually harassed and abused by then-Principal Stanford Kerr, and that other district employees knew about the abuse and conspired to cover it up.
Kerr died in 2013 and was the superintendent/principal of Montecito Union School for 25 years until 1979. He also worked as an elementary teacher in Gaviota and Carpinteria, according to his obituary…