School Nurse Sentenced After Plea to Sex Charge
A high school nurse who seduced a 17-year-old student with an attention deficit disorder has been sentenced to three years probation at the West Los Angeles Municipal Court.
Janet Mukai, 43, pleaded no contest in February to one count of having unlawful sex with a minor.
The parents of the teenager, who attended Alexander Hamilton High School, found out about the affair when the boy left a love letter from the nurse in the pocket of a jacket that he borrowed from his brother.
The boy’s father, Derek Martin, said that his son visited the nurse’s office for a daily dose of Ritalin, which is used to treat his disorder. Mukai encouraged the boy to take a nurse’s aide class and then made him her assistant, he said.
Mukai resigned shortly after the parents filed a complaint with the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Unified School District in December.
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