PALMDALE \u2013 A long-term substitute teacher at Highland High School in Palmdale is accused of\u00a0sexually assaulting a special needs male student at the school, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Aaron Alvidrez<\/strong>, 28, of Lancaster, is charged with seven felony counts, including multiple counts of committing sodomy on a minor, oral copulation on a minor, and meeting a minor for the purpose of committing a lewd act.<\/p>\n Detectives began their investigation on Monday, Oct. 20, after a 17-year-old male student at Highland High School came forward, according to Sergeant Brian Hudson of the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Special Victims Bureau.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t have specifics on [the victim\u2019s] grade level, but he was in a special needs program at the school and that is how he met the teacher,\u201d Hudson said.<\/p>\n Hudson said the student told\u00a0school officials that a teacher at the school\u00a0had sexually assaulted him on several occasions during the month of September and that the assaults took place inside a classroom at Highland High School, located at 39905 25th Street West in Palmdale. The student also claimed he was sexually assaulted inside the teacher\u2019s vehicle off campus, according to Hudson.<\/p>\n Upon learning of the student\u2019s allegations, school officials immediately contacted the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department, according to Hudson.<\/p>\n The investigation was presented to the District Attorney\u2019s office on Tuesday, Oct. 21, and Aaron Alvidrez<\/strong> was arrested around 4 p.m. that day at his Lancaster home.<\/p>\n He is currently in the custody of the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department and being held in lieu of $325,000 bail.<\/p>\n \u201cA concern of ours is always that there may be other victims out there, but we have no reason to believe at this time that there are other victims,\u201d Hudson said.<\/p>\n Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to contact the Sheriff\u2019s Special Victims Bureau at 877-710-5273.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n UPDATED 10\/24\/14<\/span>: Authorities are not releasing a booking photo of Aaron\u00a0Alvidrez because they believe their are no other potential victims in this case, according to Sgt. Brian Hudson. Alvidrez posted bail and was released from custody at\u00a05:01 p.m.,Thursday, Oct. 23.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PALMDALE \u2013 A long-term substitute teacher at Highland High School in Palmdale is accused of\u00a0sexually assaulting a special needs male student at the school, authorities said. Aaron Alvidrez, 28, of Lancaster, is charged with seven felony counts, including multiple counts of committing sodomy on a minor, oral copulation on a minor, and meeting a minor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}