It isn’t just California public schools that are dealing with inappropriate behavior from their staff. A teacher and coach at Crean Lutheran High School in Irvine, CA is under investigation for an inappropriate relationship with a female student and will likely need to find an Orange County sex crimes attorney in the coming few days.
No formal charges have been filed against Dominic John Witter, 25, an English teacher at Crean Lutheran. Witter is also a track coach and the boys’ soccer coach. Witter was put under investigation by the Orange County Child Exploitation Task Force, a multi-agency group specifically designed to track and arrest child predators.
The investigation into Witter began when he started to send sexually explicit text messages to a female student, including sexually explicit photos. Witter then asked the student for nude pictures in return. Eventually, Witter arranged for a meeting between himself at a local pizza parlor. Unbeknownst to Witter, that meeting was actually arranged by the task force and he was taken into custody.
Without transcripts of the text messages sent back and forth, it is difficult to speculate as to what charges Witter is facing. Also, the age of the student involved also can have a dramatic impact on the seriousness of the charges. However, lifetime registration as a sex offender is a very realistic possibility in this case.
Because this involves a high school student, there is also a small possibility that the student in question is actually 18, in which case, no crime was committed. Though that scenario seems unlikely considering the lengths to which the task force went to make an arrest.
