Science Teacher Pleads No Contest to Sex Charge
A disabled Burbank high school science teacher pleaded no contest Monday to charges that he molested the 14-year-old daughter of a female friend who was a district employee.
Robert G. Goar, 54, chairman of the Burroughs High School science department since 1991, pleaded no contest to two felony molestation charges--penetration with a foreign object and a lewd act with a child under 16--in the opening day of his trial.
Goar was arrested by Los Angeles police Feb. 21, 1996, after the girl told told police she had been molested both at her mother’s home and at Goar’s Toluca Lake condominium in 1994 and 1995.
The teacher, who had been free on $50,000 bail, will undergo a 90-day diagnostic evaluation and appear in court for sentencing in August.
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