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Ex-Vice Principal Sentenced to 2 1/2 Years for Sex With Student, 17

By RICHARD MAROSI
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A former Garden Grove high school vice principal was sentenced Thursday to nearly three years in state prison for having unlawful sex with a 17-year-old student who later bore him two children.

Miguel Vivanco, the former vice principal at Rancho Alamitos High School, was convicted in May on two counts of unlawful sex with the student. He was sentenced to a two-year, eight-month prison term.

Vivanco was hired by the school district in 1984. He was named vice principal 10 years later, and his duties included supervision of scheduling, athletics and disciplinary matters.

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Vivanco resigned his post shortly after being charged last year.

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Richard Marosi

Richard Marosi is a former Metro editor for the Los Angeles Times. He previously reported from the U.S.-Mexico border. Marosi was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2015 for his series on Mexican laborers and in 2013 for his stories on the fate of thousands of immigrants who were deported from the U.S. to Mexico in recent years. He has delved deeply into Mexico’s drug wars, producing a groundbreaking series on the Sinaloa cartel and sharing an Overseas Press Club Award in 2009. In the early 2000s, his corruption investigations in Southeast Los Angeles County contributed to the indictment or ouster of a dozen politicians and city officials. Marosi is a Southern California resident but remains loyal to the Giants, 49ers and Warriors of his native San Francisco Bay Area.

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