CALIFORNIA BRIEFING

By Paloma Esquivel

July 30, 2009 12 AM PT

A 24-year-old high school athletic trainer was sentenced Wednesday to community service for having sexual relations with a male high school student, prosecutors said.

Hope Ashley Jacoby of San Juan Capistrano pleaded guilty this month to four felony counts of unlawful sex with a minor. Orange County Superior Court Judge Gregory Jones reduced the felonies to misdemeanors and sentenced Jacoby to 240 hours of community service.

The sexual relationship between Jacoby and the youth started in 2008 when he was 16 and lasted about a year. She met him while working at Tustin High, prosecutors said.

-- Paloma Esquivel

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Paloma Esquivel

Paloma Esquivel is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She was on the team that won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for public service for investigating corruption in the city of Bell and the team that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for coverage of the San Bernardino terror attack. Prior to joining The Times in 2007, she was a freelance writer, worked in Spanish-language radio and was an occasional substitute teacher. A Southern California native, she graduated from UC Berkeley and has a master’s in journalism from Syracuse University.

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