Temescal Valley High teacher convicted of intercourse crimes towards scholar

A highschool teacher in Lake Elsinore has been convicted of committing intercourse crimes towards one in all his former college students and is scheduled to be sentenced in September.

Russell Warren Strange, 60, of Canyon Lake, was discovered responsible on July 15 of 5 counts of lewd acts on a toddler 14 or 15 years outdated with the perpetrator being at the least 10 years older and 5 counts of sexual penetration with a overseas object, all felonies. Strange was acquitted of 5 counts of oral copulation of an individual beneath age 16 and three counts of illegal intercourse by an individual over 21, Riverside County Superior Court data present.

Strange, a teacher at Temescal Valley High, was positioned on unpaid administrative depart in January 2019 and remains to be employed by the Lake Elsinore Unified School District.

“LEUSD is conscious that worker Russell Strange was convicted of a number of costs towards him in a legal matter,” district spokeswoman Melissa Valdez mentioned in an e-mail. “The district is transferring in the direction of the subsequent steps regarding Mr. Strange’s employment.”

The costs have been filed in 2018, virtually 20 years after the woman mentioned she had a relationship with Strange for a number of months starting when she was 14 years outdated. It was unclear why a lot time elapsed between the assaults and the fees. The accuser mentioned Strange was her basketball and softball coach and historical past teacher, in line with a sworn declaration written by a sheriff’s investigator to acquire an arrest warrant.

The accuser, recognized in court docket data as Jane Doe, estimated that that they had intercourse 30 instances and oral intercourse 20 instances in 1999 and 2000. The accuser’s father uncovered the connection when he caught his daughter sneaking out of the home, the investigator’s declaration mentioned.