Simi Valley Teacher Takes Plea Deal: Guilty For Sex Acts Including Oral Coplulation With Boy Under 14

A former elementary school teacher from Simi Valley arrested for perfoming sex acts on a young boy, accepted a plea deal with prosecutors Thursday. Malia Brooks, 32, plead guilty to three counts of lewd conduct with a child under the age of 14.

The Simi Valley teacher and mother of two was arrested and being held on $2-million bail for sex acts on a child and oral copulation with a person under 14 years of age. She has now been found guilty since she took the plea deal that was offered to her. 

The Semi Valley teacher could get a maximum of 16 years in prison, pay restitution and spend the rest of her life as a registered sex offender when she's sentenced in August.

Brooks made the deal a day after she pleaded not guilty to charges of lewd acts upon a child, oral copulation of a person under 14 years of age and three counts of genital penetration by a foreign object.

Malia Brooks, who resigned from her teaching job at Garden Grove Elementary School in Simi Valley June 5, surrendered to police on Tuesday.

"I was happy to see that this resolved itself quickly, and that for the victim's sake, he won't have to go through the trauma of a trial process," said Ventura County Deputy District Attorney Erin Meister.

"This is what Ms. Brooks wanted to do from the beginning. She wanted to plead guilty before they even told her what the charges were," said Ron Bamieh, Brooks' attorney.

He added that Brooks she was suffering from a mental illness and was now receiving treatment.

Brooks claimed her problems were brought on by abuse she suffered as a teenager when she lived in Sudan with her family.

"During the course of the investigation there have been no indications Malia Brooks had any other victims," said the Simi Valley Police Department detective.

The investigation began in February when the school district notified the police department of an incident of 'inappropriate conduct' between Brooks and a student.

Garden Grove Elementary School has provided counseling for any children affected by the events.

One distraught mother, whose daughter attends the school said, "My daughter has a good relationship with that teacher and I still don't believe it."

She said that parents had been aware that an investigation was taking place and said the school had her full support for "trying to minimize the impact on their children."

Why do these teacher stories of sex acts with children keep occurring? These sick individuals have such easy access to children and there should be a better screening process in school.

Here's another perverted teacher tale:

A science teacher at A. Mario Loiederman Middle School in Silver Spring was arrested Wednesday for several sex offenses that occurred at the school, police said.

Benjamin Robert Cano, 33, of the 200 block of Night Haven Court in Edgewater was arrested and charged with three counts of sexual abuse of a minor and three counts of committing a third-degree sex offense, according to Montgomery County Police.

Two students from the school claimed their teacher, Cano, had touched them inappropriately, police said.

The two girls also told detectives that Cano inappropriately touched a 12-year-old female student, police said. A further investigation revealed that Cano had touched all three victims inappropriately between August 2012 and May 2013.

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