A counselor at Wilmer Amina Carter High School in Rialto has been criminally charged for failing to alert police to allegations of sexual assault against a student, making her the third defendant charged in the case.
Counselor Lindsay Morton now faces charges along with Assistant Principals David Shenhan Yang and Natasha Harris, who were arrested in February by Rialto police for allegedly violating the state’s mandated reporter law, which requires educators and others to report suspected child abuse to police or child welfare authorities.
Authorities allege all three failed to report sexual abuse allegations against a 17-year-old male student at the school, who now faces criminal charges for the alleged offenses in Juvenile Court.
The misdemeanor prosecutions mark the first time in San Bernardino County history that public school officials have been criminally charged for mandated reporter violations, District Attorney Jason Anderson said.
Additionally, Harris, who also goes by the surname Harris-Dawson, and Yang were each charged with a felony count of child abuse under circumstances or conditions likely to cause great bodily injury or death.
Yang and Harris are charged with failing to report the allegations made by three female students, which authorities said allowed the abuse to continue.
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