Ongoing Investigations

A Call for Witnesses: Survivors of Julian Willis Former Kamiak High School football coach and substitute teacher Julian Willis was removed from his position following allegations of sexual misconduct. PCVA is currently investigating the allegations against Willis. If...

A Call for Witnesses: Survivors of Michael Joseph Basse Former youth sports coach Michael Joseph Basse was arrested on April 21, 2023, and charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse against children. Basse, who also goes by “Mike Basse,” used to work in the...

Call for Witnesses: Survivors of Sexual Assault at Green Hill School Green Hill School – more of a juvenile detention center for males than a school – houses male teenagers from across the state who are sentenced to juvenile rehabilitation treatment. The facility has...

UPDATE (5/24/2023): PCVA Files 31 Additional Lawsuits Alleging Abuse by Urologist Dr. Darius Paduch An additional 31 plaintiffs have come forward alleging they were sexually abused by urologist Dr. Darius Paduch at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center or...

Call for Witnesses: Survivors of Blackhills Football Club Sexual Abuse PCVA has gathered evidence that multiple coaches at Olympia-based Blackhills Football Club, sometimes referred to as Blackhills Soccer Club, were sexually abusing and harassing players between the...

Sexual Abuse at Jessie Dyslin Boys Ranch Attorneys at PCVA have already settled multiple lawsuits for sexual abuse of then-minor boys placed at Jessie Dyslin Boys Ranch in Tacoma, Washington, in the 1980s and 1990s. But we believe many more were abused at this...

A Call for Witnesses: Survivors of Dr. Ronald Goldberg In late 2022, the State of Washington Medical Commission filed formal allegations of sexual misconduct against Dr. Ronald Goldberg of Pierce County with the State of Washington Department of Health, resulting in...

A Call for Witnesses: Survivors of Sexual Perpetrator Buckland Darrell UPDATE: 4/18/2023 Buckland Darrell of Redmond, Washington, was arrested on April 11, 2023, on four additional counts of first-degree child molestation involving three new victims, one of whom was...

A Call for Witnesses: Survivors of Coach Ernest Lorch Ernest Lorch was a multimillionaire corporate attorney who founded and coached the famous Riverside Church youth basketball program. Lorch turned the program into perhaps the nation’s most elite program, spawning...

A Call for Witnesses: Survivors of Sexual Predator David O’Connor In 1977, sexual predator David O’Connor was convicted on various felony charges of “indecent liberties” with minors. He was admitted to the Sexual Psychopath Program at Western State Hospital for...