Police are looking for possible other victims of a high school counselor in West Los Angeles who is accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy.
Julie Tichon, 37, committed a “series of sexual assaults” against the teen in February and March of this year, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a news release.
Tichon faces three counts of sexual intercourse with a minor and one count of oral copulation with a person under the age of 18. She’s due back in court on Nov. 1.
Before the alleged assaults were discovered, Tichon worked as a school counselor at YULA Los Angeles, which describes itself as a “Modern Orthodox Yeshiva High School” on its website.
“The suspect used her position of responsibility to gain these victims’ trust, then began inappropriate sexual relationships with them,” Detective Russ Hess said in the LAPD release. “Rather than advising them, she was abusing them.” […]
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Where were teachers like this when I was a kid?
Almost makes me want to change my faith.
The detective looks like a clown.
There were no victims.
In CA the dude can have his junk cut off, but can’t consent to sex??? That is messed up.
Oh those poor horny young men.. I hope they survive the “ordeal”.
The world will only achieve peace when Israel only exists in the Bible. The talmud tells us that if a grown man violates a child that man must marry the child once she becomes of age as punishment. This typifies the Jewish cult/tribe. Epstein/MOSSAD used American children to blackmail politicians and the elite. Now they are showing their true colors by indiscriminately killing children and innocent people in GAZA. If you say those in GAZA are all “Something”, then you are understanding what I have written.
Someone turned into a man, no bar mitzvah needed.
Dolly Parton screws a 15 year old, but not a peep. She bragged about it on TV and not a peep. Of course, if Dolly Parton “assaulted” me at 15 years old, I would not have complained then or now.
But Governor Newsom made a law that it is not unlaw for an adult to have concenting sex with anyone 14 and older Assembly Bill 489
Where were all these horny and willing teachers back when I was a frustrated teenager????
I wonder who ratted her out? Ruined it for everyone.