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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

When your child leaves the home for daycare, school, foster care, or other out-of-home settings, you trust others with his or her wellbeing. Unfortunately, not every caregiver is trustworthy. Violent and criminal perpetrators may hurt your child physically, mentally, or sexually. Child abuse out of the home is a difficult reality to face, but...

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...

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...