A San Diego County educator who was once appointed teacher of the year has been sentenced to perpetual chain for 30 years for assaulting and assaulting two children in their primary classroom in National City.
Jacqueline Ma Tok is the advantage of her role as a teacher of Quincuentto and sixth grade in Lincoln Acres Elementary to manipulate her victims, attracting with gifts, special attention and even complete her task, according to the District Prosecutor of the County of San Diego.
When one of his victims was not allowed access to social networks or personal electronic devices at home, the sheet to the extent that he established a program after the unauthorized school and ordered him to send him a message through an application of a school chat, prosecutors said.
The 36 -year -old teacher declared himself guilty in February two positions of forced lascivious acts, a lascivious act on a child and a position of having child sexual abuse material.
She was arrested by the National City Police Department in March 2023 after the victims’ mother reported inappropriate messages that she found between her son and MA on a family tablet. The researchers learned that Ma had prepared the child for more than a year before abusing sex when he was 12 years old.
Ma performed sexual acts about the child in his classroom on a period of three months, while his parents thought he was participating in a basketball program after school, prosecutors said.
The researchers also discovered that a second victim, an 11 -year -old boy, in 2020.
“This defendant violated the confidence he had with his students in the most extreme and traumatic way possible and the actions are despicable,” Dist. Atty. Summer Stephan said in a statement. “Your victims will have to deal with the effects of a life or negative and their 30 -year sentence is appropriate.”
Ma was appointed teacher of the year for academic year 2022-23 by the San Diego County Education Office. He obtained his degree in Biology and Master in Education of UC San Diego and had taught fifth and sixth grade in the National School District since 2013, according to a profile in the Tribune of the Union of San Diego.
She used her reputation as an educator above and Beyond who was personally invested in the success of the students to gain the trust of the parents of the victims, prosecutors said.
“No child deserves what this defendant did,” Stephan said. “I hope this prayer brings a measure of justice to the victims, their families and the community that remained in the crimes of this defendant.”
