A former Mar Vista High School campus aide who pleaded responsible to partaking in intercourse acts with a 17-year-old male scholar was sentenced Thursday to serve six months within the county’s work furlough program.
Lisette Veles Ortega, 32, who was an worker of an out of doors contractor utilized by the Imperial Beach secondary faculty, was arrested in May. At the time, she was working for Ro Healthcare, which the corporate’s web site states is a medical staffing and residential well being company that helps employees nurses at colleges, correctional amenities and for personal house care.
She pleaded responsible about 4 months after her arrest to expenses of illegal sexual activity with a minor and oral copulation with a minor.
Defense legal professional Tom Matthews mentioned his consumer was remorseful and the case “weighed on her heavily,” prompting an early responsible plea. Matthews argued for a non-custodial sentence for these causes, in addition to what he mentioned was a “marginal” influence on the sufferer. The legal professional famous that the boy didn’t report what occurred to police and claimed there’d been proof that he was boasting about it to his friends.
Deputy District Attorney Tom Willett argued the sufferer didn’t report the crimes as a result of Ortega had dissuaded him in opposition to it and inspired him to delete proof from his telephone and to misinform investigators. The prosecutor additionally claimed that she tried to steer the minor to flee along with her to Mexico in some unspecified time in the future when the allegations arose.
Superior Court Judge Michael Popkins agreed with the protection that she’d proven regret and credited her with pleading responsible early on within the case, however mentioned some type of custody ought to be imposed. Along with six months of labor furlough, plus probation, a 10-year protecting order was served on Ortega, which prohibits any contact between her and the sufferer.
–City News Service