A teacher in Washington has gone from the classroom to the courtroom after he was accused of having sex with a student for more than a year. Wapato Adam’s elementary teacher Jesus Barcena now faces a maximum of life in prison if he is found guilty of raping one of his fifth-grade students.
Police say Barcenas began molesting the girl last winter, a few weeks after her 11th birthday. The student claims her teacher would touch and ‘French kiss’ her in his classroom. Court papers also claim that the 26-year-old groped her for years.
They became friends during an after-school programme when she was in third grade. The teacher not only had access to the girl through his classroom. Police say he also began dating the alleged victim’s mother and even moved in to their home last summer.
But if the allegations are found true, it was hardly a normal childhood for the girl who is now 12. She told the police that Barcenas had sex with her several times while they lived under the same roof, including once in her mother’s bedroom.
The victim also told the investigators that she believed Barcenas brainwashed her into thinking that sex with him was okay.
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