SANTA ANA (CNS) – A 38-year-old high school choir teacher has been sentenced to one month in jail after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a 17-year-old student at Santa Ana High School.
Police were called to the high school at 6 p.m. on Nov. 15, 2024, regarding a report of a student engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a teacher, police said. A then-17-year-old senior said he had been having sexual contact with his choir teacher for about six months, police said.
Yesenia Navarro Garcia of Orange was arrested the following day, Nov. 16, 2024.
On Friday, Nov 21, Garcia pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of oral copulation of an underage victim. As part of the plea deal, the charges were reduced from felonies.
Garcia, who had four days of credit behind bars, was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a year of informal probation. She will also have to register as a sex offender, according to court records.
She had been a full-time choir teacher at the school for about five years, police said.
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