An assistant principal and counselor in Los Angeles, US, has been arrested and is dealing with a number of felony costs for alleged molestation of eight elementary faculty college students.
Prosecutors allege the abuse passed off between 2015 and 2019 whereas David Lane Braff Jr, 42, labored as a counselor at an elementary faculty in Santa Paula. The sufferer college students had been below the age of 11, with some as younger as six years outdated.
“The defendant is alleged to have molested a number of elementary faculty youngsters over a variety of years, shattering the belief positioned in him by dad and mom, educators, and the general public,” Ventura County district lawyer Erik Nasarenko stated in an announcement, in accordance with a New York Publish report.
Braff was arrested on Friday and charged with 17 felony counts.
On the time of his arrest, Braff was working as an assistant principal and faculty counselor at Ingenium Constitution Center Faculty in Winnetka, Los Angeles. Prosecutors consider Braff might have labored at different Southern California faculties and volunteered with youth teams.
Braff is at present being held in Ventura County jail on a $3 million bail. He’s scheduled to seem in court docket on Monday.