California ‘Teacher of the Year’ faces 14 charges in child sexual abuse case
LA TimesJacqueline Ma, a former teacher in National City, is accused of having an “inappropriate relationship” with a 13-year-old former student. A teacher in National City who won a Teacher of the Year award in August was arrested and booked into county jail for an “inappropriate relationship” with a 13-year-old former student, police said. Jacqueline Ma, 34, was a teacher at Lincoln Acres Elementary in National City — just south of San Diego — where she taught fifth and sixth grades. Leighangela Brady said at a school board meeting Wednesday that the community was trying to process the “unthinkable situation.” Ma had been a teacher in the district since 2013 and had a bachelor’s degree in biology and a master’s in education, both from UC San Diego, according to her Teacher of the Year profile in the San Diego Union Tribune.
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