The Palm Beach County School District will pay nearly $4 million to settle a 2005 molestation case involving four third-graders and their teacher.
The settlement was reached Wednesday after the school board denounced the district's legal team for a suggesting that the victims were partly to blame for the incidents.
The families of the four Coral Sunset Elementary students each filed complaints against teacher Blake Sinrod. The girls were 9-years-old at the time.
Sinrod pleaded guilty in 2006 to molesting two of the victims. The four families then filed a joint civil suit.
An attorney representing the girls says money won't erase the memory of what happened.