Logan Allen Nighswonger, 34, is scheduled to be sentenced on July 9 in Superior Court in Riverside after the May 29 plea that he negotiated with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. The judge may have the ultimate say on the size of the sentence.
As a situation of his plea, felony costs of committing a lewd act with a toddler below 14 with power, and assault with intent to commit mayhem, in addition to a misdemeanor depend of illegally getting into faculty grounds, are scheduled to be dropped, mentioned John Hall, a DA’s Office spokesman.
Nighswonger will serve that sentence similtaneously one he’ll obtain in a separate case for pleading responsible on May 29 to a cost of possession of kid pornography, Hall mentioned.
On Aug. 19, 2022, Nighswonger scaled the 6-foot-high chain-link fence at S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary on Golden Avenue, entered a restroom and groped a 3rd grade lady, Riverside police mentioned. A campus supervisor noticed a person depart the restroom and chased him as he climbed over fences to flee. The supervisor reported the person’s description and his automobile’s license plate to police, who went to Nighswonger’s office in Placentia and arrested him.
In 2015, Nighswonger uncovered himself to 6 women ages 9 to 11 close to Mark Twain Elementary in Riverside, Superior Court data present. He pleaded responsible to 2 counts of misdemeanor annoying or molesting a toddler. He was given a suspended sentence of three hundred and sixty five days in jail and three years of probation. Nighswonger was required to register as a intercourse offender, which meant he was prohibited from dwelling or going close to faculties and parks.
In the wake of the 2022 assault, Alvord Unified School District Superintendent Allan Mucerino vowed to enhance safety on the faculty, which opened in 1987.