Laura Whitehurst biography: 13 things about Redlands, California woman

Who is Laura Whitehurst?

Laura Elizabeth Whitehurst is an American woman from Redlands, San Bernardino County, California, United States. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. She also goes by Laura Selders.
2. Aside from Redlands, she has lived in other parts of California including Goleta.
3. She taught English and was a soccer coach at Redlands High School and Citrus Valley High School, which are both in Redlands.
4. From 2006 to 2013, she taught briefly at all of the high schools of the Redlands Unified School District in Redlands.
5. In 2007, she allegedly sexually abused a man Redlands East Valley High School freshman.
6. Between 2007 and 2008, she allegedly sexually abused another male Redlands High School student, then 14.
7. In 2012, she started having sex with a male Citrus Valley High School student, then 16.
8. On June 18, 2013, she gave birth to a baby fathered by the Citrus Valley High School student she sexually abused in 2012.
9. On July 1, 2013, she was arrested on suspicion of having an unlawful sexual relationship with a minor. She was later released on $25,000 bail. She admitted to police she had sex with a minor 10 to 15 times in her classroom and at her apartment between 2007 and 2008.
10. On July 31, 2013, she pleaded guilty to just six of the 41 felony counts she was facing.
11. On August 28, 2013, she was sentenced by Judge Arthur Harrison at San Bernardino Superior Court in San Bernardino, California to a year in county jail and five years’ probation.
12. On August 20, 2016, the Redlands Unified School District agreed to pay $6 million to the former student who impregnated her while she was his teacher.
13. In November 2024, she turned 39.

TIMELINE

2021

• On January 29, 2021, the former student she allegedly abused between 2007 and 2008 filed a lawsuit against her in San Bernardino Superior Court. The plaintiff was represented by Manly, Stewart & Finaldi.

2022

• In October 2022, a former student filed a lawsuit against her in San Bernardino Superior Court, claiming that she groomed him for abuse and engaged in multiple sex acts with him on campus.

2023

• In September 2023, it was revealed that the Redlands Unified School District would pay $2.25 million to settle the lawsuit filed against her in 2021.