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Palmdale teacher pleads not guilty to sex with student

by City News Service • April 8, 2020

Anthony Faaborg [Facebook photo]
PALMDALE – A man who taught at Pete Knight High School in Palmdale pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges stemming from alleged sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old female student.

Anthony Mahari Faaborg, 53, is charged with five counts each of committing a lewd act on a child 14 or 15 years old and sexual penetration of a person under 16, four counts of oral copulation of a person under 16 and three counts of unlawful sexual intercourse, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

The crimes allegedly occurred last year on or between October and December, according to Deputy District Attorney Alexander Lara.

Faaborg was arrested Feb. 19 at his home in Palmdale following an investigation by detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Special Victims Bureau. He was subsequently released Feb. 28 on bond, according to jail records.

He is due back in a Lancaster courtroom on June 30, when a date is scheduled to be set for a hearing to determine if there is sufficient evidence to require him to stand trial.

Faaborg could face a potential maximum state prison term of 1more than 14 years if convicted as charged, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

Previous related story: High school teacher in Palmdale accused of sexual relationship with student

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Filed Under: Crime/ Safety, Home, Palmdale

2 comments for "Palmdale teacher pleads not guilty to sex with student"

  1. Richard says

    April 9, 2020 at 2:01 pm

    They should also go and arrest the man in charge of security at this High School, he is known among students for facilitating the key to the gym locker rooms where adult students 17 and 18 go to engage in sex with girls as young as 13 and 14 then they post pictures of them on groups they create on snapchat with names like Big A** Bit***s . I believe that this school has some code of silence because many people know but nobody says anything.
    Beware of sending your kids to this school where they are pushed into having sex and drugs by older students and by the very same people who are supposed to be in charge of maintaining security and the integrity our kids .
    Remember this is not the first time this happens here, this has been going on for a really long time.

    • John says

      April 10, 2020 at 2:32 pm

      The problem actually goes much higher than just the security at Knight High School. The previous security team members were all transferred to various locations because they sounded the alarm bell to the management. However, instead dealing with the problem, the district tried to hide the facts and move the security team members else where.

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