What happened to you at CYT was not okay.

Christian Youth Theater started in San Diego and for thirty years it was where church kids in the county did their first show. In 2022 six men sued it, saying three instructors abused them between 1991 and 2011 and that the people running CYT knew and kept it quiet. One of those instructors pleaded guilty in 2022. Another pleaded guilty this March, after a jury couldn't agree, and was sentenced in May. The San Diego chapters are closed. Were you a CYT kid? Did something happen that you have never quite named? Then keep reading, because this is about you.

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This applies to you no matter what

• It was one of the two men who have already pleaded guilty, and you were never one of the named victims. Prosecutors charge what they can prove about a handful of people, which is not the same thing as a count of everyone he reached.
• It was somebody else. Three instructors are named in the civil suit, and the suit is about a program that let it happen, not one man.
• You told a director, a parent volunteer, the office, and the person kept working shows. That is the cover-up the six plaintiffs describe, and in California a cover-up in a childhood case can triple what a jury awards.
• It was the 1990s. So was some of what is already in court. California's deadline for anyone abused as a minor runs to age 40, or five years from the day you understood what it did to you.
• You're a parent, a sibling, a castmate asking on behalf of someone who can't bring themselves to. Reach out anyway; we can talk to you first.

The CYT San Diego record: the investigation, the suit, the pleas, and when

We didn't write what's below. The police, the courts and San Diego's newsrooms did, and we link to every one of them. We don't add to it. CYT has not admitted anything in the civil case, and nothing here decides it.

We checked this on September 11, 2026, and the newest thing in it is from May 20, 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 CYT San Diego lawsuit

The organization. The men who did it have answered, or are answering, in criminal court, and probation is what they got. The civil case is about something else: a nonprofit that put adults alone with children for thirty years, was told, and kept the shows going. That is what the six plaintiffs allege, and under California law an organization that covered up abuse of a child can be made to pay three times the damages.

Who actually writes the check is a fair question about a nonprofit, and a lawyer will walk you through it: the San Diego organization's insurance, and whether the national CYT network it grew out of belongs in the case.

Your deadline: the California statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse in a youth program

Your situation still qualifies even if

• You never told a soul. It was a church program and everyone loved him.
• You were a teenager and it felt like a relationship. That is what grooming is built to feel like.
• You're a man and you figure this page isn't for you. The six plaintiffs are men.
• You went on to do theater, or you quit forever. Either one is a normal thing to have happened.
• You live somewhere else now. Most people do, by the time they're ready.

Programs covered

CYT San Diego's shows, classes and camps across the county: North County, East County, South Bay, Central; the El Cajon headquarters; teen leadership and intern programs. A different CYT chapter, or Christian Community Theater? The questions still work. Answer them and say where.

Who sees your form

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.

You never pay a dollar

Every case is on contingency. There is no charge for the call, the review, or the case. The firm is paid only out of a recovery, and if there is no recovery you owe nothing.