Gadams had previously been employed at the Mendota Unified School District (from 1985 to 1988) During his time of the employment there, Gadams had been investigated and reprimanded for improper conduct with female junior high students, including giving them back massages, making sexual remark to them, and being involved in “sexual situations” with them.
Gilbert rosette, an official with Mendota, provided a letter of recommendation for Gadams in May 1990. The letter was part of Gadams’s placement file at Fresno Pacific College, where he had received his teaching credentials. The recommendation was extensive and referred to Gadams’s “genuine concern” for students, his “outstanding rapport” with everyone, and concluded, “O wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Mr. Gadams for any position.”
Gadams had also previously been employed at the Tranquility High School District and Golden Plains Unified District (1987 – 1900). Richard Cole, an administrator at Golden Plains, also provided a letter of recommendation for the Fresno placement file that listed Gadams’s “favorable” qualities and concluded that he “would recommend him foralmost any administrative position he wishes to pursue,” Cole knew, at the time he provided the recommendation, that Gadams had been the subject of various parents’ complaints, inclulding that he “led a panty raid, made sexual overtures to students, swxual remarks to students.” Cole also Knew that Gadams had resined under pressure because of these sexual misconduct charges.