Samuel Neipp is the music teacher at Dartmouth Middle School in San Jose arrested for having a three-year-long sexual relationship with a Dartmouth student, beginning when the student was just thirteen. Neipp was also an assistant band director at Branham High School. Neipp was arrested Friday October 6, 2017 on suspicion of blackmail and multiple sex-related charges, having used his position of authority at the school to exploit the victim — otherwise known as grooming. He is being held without bail at the Santa Clara County jail per a statement from the San Jose Police Department, and is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday October 11, 2017. Officials believe that Neipp could have victimized additional students due to his position of authority and his close proximity to many students at both schools. We agree with investigators on this point. We’re sorry to say that in our professional experience we have never encountered a teacher who sexually abused “just one child” or “just one time”. There is no doubt that other victims of Neipp will come forward, whether from Dartmouth or Branham schools or other positions Neipp may have held.

Christina Jacobson (aka Chris Austin), a Beaumont High School English teacher, remains in the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga on $500,000 bail. The 37-year-old teacher was accused of sexual contact with a female student at or near her Lake Arrowhead home. Jacobson’s arrest comes just two weeks after that of Samantha Ciotta, a fellow English teacher at Beaumont High. The Beaumont Unified School District is expanding its training to help staff identify signs of inappropriate sexual conduct. The district learned of the allegations on September 18, after which Jacobson was put on administrative leave — she resigned later that day. One week later, on September 25, Beaumont Police, who had been working with the district, turned the case over to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’ Crimes Against Children Detail, and Jacobson was arrested a week after that on Monday October 2, 2017. We have, in all of our years, never come across an authority figure at a school having committed just one instance of sexual abuse with a child. In our measured opinion, authorities will uncover other students from Jacobson’s recent and/or distant past, beyond the one that is noted currently. If your child was taught by Ms….

Lakewood High School’s Mary Jahn is the 52-year-old English teacher arrested on nine felony charges related to sexual abuse of a then-15-year-old female student for a three-year period, 2008-2011. The survivor is now an adult, and thankfully, reported the sexual abuse to officials this year. After the reporting, the Long Beach Unified School District placed Jahn on leave from her job; she was eventually arrested by Long Beach Police on September 13, 2017. The nine charges include sexual penetration by a foreign object (four counts), lewd act upon a child (three counts) and oral copulation of a person under 18 (two counts). The Long Beach Police Department and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office continue to investigate the Mary Jahn case. Over the course of two decades, in our very considerable experience working with institutional child sex abuse cases, we have virtually never come across the case of a school teacher, coach, volunteer, bus driver, scout leader, or any other authority figure at the school having sexually abused a child “just that once” or “just that one student” over the course of his or her career. Frankly, we are almost certain that Long Beach Police will find additional survivors…