‘Teacher of the Year’ Arrested at School, Charged with Child Sex Abuse and Child Pornography

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A San Diego County “Teacher of the Year” has been arrested twice on charges related to child sex abuse and child pornography.

Jacqueline Ma was arrested Thursday and faces 14 charges relating to possession of child pornography, sexual exploitation of a child and “preventing or dissuading a witness or victim,” the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said, according to KNSD.

On Tuesday, Ma had been arrested on three counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 and three counts of oral copulation with a child under 14, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department.

Ma, a sixth-grade teacher at Lincoln Acres Elementary School in National City, had been out on bail from the first set of charges when the second set was filed. Her first arrest took place on school grounds, according to KNSD.

Aileen Carillo said her younger brother had been a student of Ma’s and described the teacher’s communication with him as “over the top,” according to the New York Post.

“She would go to my brother’s games in Tijuana every weekend. She went to one of his birthday parties, everything,” Carillo said.

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