Lakewood High School Teacher arrested for sex abuse of student

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...
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BEAUMONT HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER ARRESTED FOR SEXUAL ABUSE

Beaumont Unified School District's Samantha Lee Ciotta is the 32-year-old English teacher and head cheer coach at Beaumont High School recently arrested for sexual abuse of a student. Beaumont police detectives began investigating this case based on a tip. In the course of the investigation, the victim disclosed the months-long unlawful sexual abuse by...
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Santa Ana High school wrestling coach suspected of sex with student

An Orange County wrestling coach at Santa Ana High School, in Santa Ana, CA, was arrested on Tuesday August 29, 2017, on suspicion of having sex with a teen student. Jaime Orendain is the 34-year-old part-time coach at the high school, and it's alleged that the sex took place both on campus and during...
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LA Unified School District soccer coach sentenced for sex abuse

Ronnie Lee Roman of San Fernando is the 44-year-old soccer coach for a Los Angeles Unified School District after-school program. On Tuesday, August 29, 2017 he was sentenced to "105 years to life" -- the maximum -- for sexual molestation of multiple students over the course of several years. We have virtually never seen...
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JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES continue to victimize sex abuse survivors

An article was published recently about Jehovah's Witnesses and their inappropriate handling of child sex abuse allegations after-the-fact, in The Guardian. Jonathan Rose is a convicted pedophile and a former "elder" of the Manchester New Moston congregation of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. He was jailed for nine months. As if his original sexual abuse of...
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ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC TEACHER ARRESTED, SEXUAL ASSAULT OF CHILD

30-year-old music teacher, Christian Hernandez, of Los Rios Rock School in San Juan Capistrano, was arrested on Thursday August 24, 2017 for sexually assaulting a minor student. This sort of teacher behavior is not usually a "one time" or "one victim" opportunity. It is very likely, as investigators have said, that the Orange County...
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Elite Brentwood School teacher arrested for having sex with teen

45-year-old Aimee Palmitessa was arrested Friday, August 18, 2017, and taken into custody by LAPD detectives, for having sex with a 16-year-old student. Sexual relations between a teacher and a student is sexual molestation of that student. This behavior, on behalf of a teacher, is usually not unique to one time, one victim. It's...
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Marina High School track & field coach arrested for sex abuse

High School volunteer track and field coach and Marine recruiter Gonzalo Castro of San Clemente has been arrested after a then-17-year-old student's allegations of sexual abuse during an off-campus training run. As sexual molestation of students (or any children) is learned behavior, it is not likely to catch a pedophile such as Castro early-on in...
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Miramonte Elementary’s Joseph Baldenebro arrested for molestation

Fifth-grade teacher Joseph Baldenebro of Miramonte Elementary School in South El Monte, in the Mountain View School District, stands accused of inappropriately touching several female students. The girls were aged 8 to 11, and the molestation took place both on school grounds and in the classroom. This news is courtesy of the Los Angeles...
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LA Unified Wrestling coach Terry Gillard accused of student sex abuse

Wrestling coach Terry Terrell Gillard of John H. Francis Polytechnic High School in Sun Valley has been charged with sexually molesting four 14 and 15 year old students over the course of three years, according to the LA County District Attorney. Child sexual molestation is behavior that's learned, and it would be unlikely for...
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