Former High School Teacher, Coach In Van Nuys Guilty Of Molestation, Sexual Battery Against 18 Students
LAPPL News Watch
May 8, 2019
A 44-year-old man was convicted of molesting more than a dozen female students while working as a teacher and girls lacrosse coach at a charter high school in Van Nuys, officials said Tuesday.
A jury found Scott Silva, of Simi Valley, guilty on 25 criminal counts: 16 counts of child molestation, six counts of sexual battery, two counts of lewd conduct upon a child and one count of false imprisonment, the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office said in a news release.
Silva worked at Birmingham Charter Community School, and carried out the abuse beginning in 2016. The victims were 18 underage female students, investigators said.
During the two-week trial, the jury heard that Silva’s inappropriate conduct with the girls ranged from lewd comments, to touching their private parts over their clothes, to skin-on-skin contact with at least one of the victims.
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Former Wrestling Coach In The San Fernando Valley Convicted Of Molesting 9 Minors
LAPPL News Watch
May 9, 2019
A man who coached wrestling at a Sun Valley high school was convicted Tuesday of 47 sex-related counts, including lewd act on a child, involving seven boys and two girls.
Jurors found Terry Terrell Gillard of Sylmar, 58, guilty of three felony counts each of lewd act on a child, lewd act on a child 14 or 15 and oral copulation of a person under 18, along with 28 felony counts of procuring a child to engage in a lewd act and 10 misdemeanor counts of child molestation, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
The crimes involved minors whom Gillard met through the wrestling teams at John H. Francis Polytechnic High School and the Boys and Girls Club of San Fernando between 1991 and 2017, according to evidence presented during Gillard’s trial.
The victims were between the ages of 11 and 17, according to Deputy District Attorney Cathy Lee.
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