People v. Jauregui CA2/8

FACTS

Jauregui was an eighth-grade science teacher at a middle school in Los Angeles. He was in a relationship with another teacher at that school, Nina Klein, with whom he bought a house in 2007. He developed a special relationship with Jeanette P. when he was her eighth-grade teacher. He referred to Jeanette as his “stepdaughter” and kept in contact with her after her graduation. While she was in high school, Jeanette regularly returned to the middle school to serve as Jauregui’s student teacher aide and to receive tutoring in math from Jauregui. On August 25, 2007, Jauregui told Jeanette he loved her. They had their first sexual encounter at his house on December 14, 2007, when Jeanette was 16 years old. Thereafter, they had sex approximately three to four times a week at various locations, including at the middle school, his home with Klein, his brother’s house and Karen Evanitsky’s house.1 Jeanette also accompanied him to Arizona in August 2008 and to Catalina Island in September 2008. Jauregui bought Jeanette gifts. He told Jeanette his relationship with Nina was not working and that they slept in separate bedrooms, but that they could not separate because the home they…