The award-winning California teacher shed tears in court after confessing to sexually abuse two students, ages 11 and 12.
Jacqueline MA, named “Teacher of the Year” in San Diego County just months before his arrest, faces a phenomenal surprise behind the bar due to shocking abuse at the national city of Lincoln Acre Elementary School I was doing it.
When it was knocked down Wednesday, she admitted her actions with her students as part of a plea deal that allows her to still be sentenced to a life sentence of 30 years.
“Guilty,” Masa told the judge through sobs. Fox 5 San Diego Shows Video.
MA also includes possessive material that includes minors who have engaged in sexual acts engaged in boys, mimicked sexual behaviors, or sent pictures of them engaged in sexual acts. He pleaded guilty to count.
“This was very important to us not only because she won the award, but because she was in the community,” Assistant District Attorney Drew Hart told Fox San Diego.
“This plea deal will use the community's parents and sincere faith when we leverage our position of trust, and when we do this to our children, we will send a message to the community. It's an important penalty to pay.”
MA, who taught children in 5th and 6th grade, was arrested on the school campus in the spring of 2023 after the mother of a 12-year-old boy contacted police. , share explicit text with love letters.
She asked him to send him a risqué photo of herself and to take a video of herself engaged in sexual activity.
In one message, the child reminded the teacher, “I sometimes don't think I understand that I am a child yet.” The San Diego Tribune reported.
In one instance, she took off her shirt after asking the 12-year-old victim for a private classroom meeting. According to Fox 5 San Diego.
Prosecutors said MA also had a different relationship with the then current student, an 11-year-old boy, and exchanged messages for him that were sexually charged.
A photo of one of the victims was found in her wallet after her arrest.
At the end of the 2023 preliminary hearing, Superior Court Judge Maryne Dadegio said the evidence “much-wise it makes the defendant “overwhelmingly clear that he used two children.”
“From our office perspective, it was very important that these be accused of not only sexual offences but as sexual offences committed under obsessions.
The MA will be declared on May 9th.
