What happened to you in that studio was not okay, whatever he told you it was.

Carlsbad police made an arrest on the last day of April. The man they took in had taught dance for six years, 2011 through 2017, at Carlsbad Performing Arts Academy on Avenida Encinas and at DanceFX up the road in San Marcos, and three women who had been his students had walked into the station and told them why. By mid-May he had pleaded not guilty to six felony counts about one girl, fourteen and fifteen when it happened. The police said the thing they only say when they mean it, which is that there are probably more. If you took his classes, this is about you.

WatchingThe criminal case is still in its first months and nobody has filed a civil claim yet. That is exactly when a list of names matters most, so we are taking them now.

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This applies to you no matter what

• You are one of the women who already spoke to the police. Talking to a detective and talking to a civil lawyer are two different doors, and one doesn't close the other.
• You never spoke to anyone. The charges cover one girl. The police statement says more.
• It was the other studio. He taught at both, and whichever building it was, a studio that hires a man and leaves him alone with teenage girls answers for what it should have found out first.
• It was 2011 and you're pushing thirty, so you assume the window shut a long time ago. It didn't. For anyone abused as a minor, California's deadline runs to your fortieth birthday, and you are a decade short of it.
• You aren't sure it was abuse, because he was your teacher and you were fourteen and it felt like being picked. Being picked, at fourteen, by the adult in charge of you, is precisely the thing the statute was written about.
• You're a parent, or a friend from the studio, asking for someone who can't. Reach out anyway.

The Carlsbad case so far: what the police and the court have said, and when

We didn't write what's below. The Carlsbad Police Department and the Coast News did, and we link to each of them. We don't add to it. The man charged has pleaded not guilty, and nothing here decides his case.

We checked this on September 11, 2026, and the newest thing in it is from May 15, 2026. When something new gets filed or decided, it goes in here within 72 hours, with the link.

Who can be held responsible in a Carlsbad Performing Arts Academy lawsuit

The studios, if the facts support it. A teacher who abuses a student answers for himself, in criminal court, and that case is under way. A studio answers for how it hired him, what it checked, what it heard, and what it did with what it heard. Nobody has sued yet, and whether there is a case against either studio depends on facts that only come out when people talk. That is what a Watching page is for.

We will say plainly that a small dance studio is not a hospital chain. What it can pay depends on its insurance, and a lawyer will tell you that on the first call rather than the last.

Your deadline: the California statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse at a dance studio

Your situation still qualifies even if

• You never told a soul. Dance moms talk, and you didn't want to be the story.
• You kept dancing with him for years after. That is common, and it is not consent.
• You're not sure it counts because it never went as far as what's in the charges.
• You think the three women who came forward have it covered. They spoke to the police. Civil is a different door.
• You live somewhere else now. Most people do, by the time they're ready.

Studios covered

Carlsbad Performing Arts Academy, 6108 Avenida Encinas, Carlsbad · DanceFX, San Marcos · private lessons, competition teams, summer intensives and workshops he taught anywhere else. A different North County studio? The questions still work. Answer them and say where.

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Kerim Eravci · Survivor Advocate · Not a lawyer

I was a victim, and I waited. Not because I didn't know what happened to me (I knew every day), but because I'd decided it was over, mine to carry, nobody's business. When I finally went looking for a lawyer, the answer came back in two words I'd never thought about: statute of limitations. My time had run out while I was busy getting through it.

What that has cost me since is a long story, and I'll tell you the whole thing in private, if you want it. The short version is the reason my name is on this page: I'm here to help people do what I wish I'd done, which is find out where you stand while the door's still open.

I'm not a lawyer. I read what you send, I call you once, on your terms, and nothing gets filed unless you say so. Ask sooner than I did.

Kerim Eravci is not an attorney. He's a survivor.

What happens next. Three steps, nothing more until you say so.

1. You answer 6 questions. Nothing is filed. Nothing starts.
2. A survivor calls you, once. Not a robot, not a call center. Someone who has been where you are.
3. You decide. You find out your options. If you want to stop there, you stop there.

How this works

ME2 Survivors Alliance protects the heart. Licensed California attorneys do the legal work. We are not lawyers and we don't pretend to be.

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