Exclusive | Elite Calabasas school covered up teachers sick photos of school girls because he bats for the other team: suit

A $54,000-a-year Calabasas prep school knew a teacher was taking photographs up female students skirts but dismissed it because they said he was gay, according to a new lawsuit.Concerned parents claim they reported Travis Shojinaga, 39, more than a year before he was arrested for child molestation and possession of child pornography at Viewpoint school, the papers say.A student and another girl believed the educator was taking upskirt photos with his iPhone in December 2024, the documents claim.The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

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Never miss a story “The children reported that Shojinaga had been sitting with them at lunch, placing his telephone beneath the table, and making them uncomfortable, and that the conduct was not limited,” the lawsuit reads.When a parent took the complaint to Claudia Antoine, the head of lower school, she expressed surprise he would be interested in girls, commenting “he bats for the other team,” the papers say.Viewpoint characterized the child’s concern as a possible “misunderstanding” and “made no meaningful attempt to determine whether the allegation was true,” including inspecting Shojinaga’s phone, the suit argues.Shojinaga was arrested over a year later in February 2026 and his alleged behavior was made public in a complaint filed by DA Nathan Hochman.Prosecutors claim he took secret videos “up the shirts of the 4th and 5th grade female students that he teaches.”The accused pedophile took recordings of the 10 and 11-year-old girls by bending down and pretending to pick up trash or tie his shoe, the court filings show.After his arrest, he told authorities he had an “addiction” and had taken 50 to 60 recordings, according to court filings.“He said taking and viewing these photos made his ‘heart race,’” the documents sa...