Teacher Suspected of Sex With Teen
A teacher at a small private high school in Ojai was arrested on suspicion of having sex with a teenage girl, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department said.
Ventura resident James Eric Woodstock, 31, was booked into Ventura County Jail on Tuesday, authorities said. He is being held in lieu of $50,000 bail.
Villanova Preparatory High School, a coeducational Catholic school, enrolled 271 students in grades 9 through 12 in 1996 and had a full-time teaching staff of 21.
According to Det. Maureen Hookstra, Woodstock was arrested following a weeklong investigation into his involvement with the 17-year-old girl, who was not identified because of her age. Authorities did not say if she is a student at the school.
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