LOS ANGELES (TCN) — Police are searching for further victims and potential witnesses after a college steering counselor at a non-public non secular college allegedly sexually assaulted a 16-year-old scholar earlier this 12 months.
The Los Angeles Police Division alleges that 37-year-old Julie Tichon dedicated the crimes towards the underage sufferer between February and March.
Detective Russ Hess stated the steering counselor at YULA Excessive College, a contemporary Orthodox Jewish college, “used her place of duty to achieve these victims’ belief, then started inappropriate sexual relationships with them.” Huss continued, “Moderately than advising them, she was abusing them.”
Police stated Tichon has since left the varsity.
On Sept. 19, the Los Angeles County District Lawyer’s Workplace charged her with three counts of illegal sexual activity with a minor and one depend of oral copulation of an individual underneath 18.
Tichon faces a most sentence of 5 years in jail if convicted. Tichon appeared in courtroom for her arraignment on Sept. 19 and pleaded not responsible, and she or he was launched on her personal recognizance.
District Lawyer George Gascón stated, “Educators and college employees have a elementary responsibility to create a protected atmosphere for all college students, and when that belief is damaged, it impacts your entire group. Our workplace is devoted to searching for justice for the sufferer and holding this particular person absolutely accountable. To each sufferer and household affected by such crimes, please know that we stand with you and can proceed to combat on your security and justice.”
Investigators imagine there could also be “different college students who’ve but to come back ahead who may probably add to this legal case.”
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