Teacher charged with molesting Palmdale special needs student
A substitute teacher suspected of molesting a 17-year-old special needs student at a high school in Palmdale was charged Wednesday with seven felony counts, authorities said.
Aaron Alvidrez, 28, was arrested Tuesday after one of his male students at Highland High School came forward with the allegations, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The victim told a school official that he had been sexually assaulted by Alvidrez, a longtime substitute teacher, in Alvidrez’s classroom and in his car on several occasions in the last month, authorities said.
Alvidrez, who was arrested at his home in Lancaster, was charged with seven felony counts, including committing sodomy on a minor, oral copulation on a minor, and meeting a minor for the purpose of committing a lewd act, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
He is being held in lieu of $325,000 bail.
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