The State - News from March 18, 1988
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Authorities have closed a Tustin group home for runaway teen-agers after three girls reported they had been sexually molested there, police said. The girls, ages 15, 16 and 17, called police to report they had been molested by a man at the Laurel House, beginning in May, 1987, Tustin Police Lt. Walt Wedemeyer said. Wedemeyer said police closed the Orange County home as a matter of routine during the investigation. He said no one has been arrested or charged. Police would not identify the alleged assailant.
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