California teacher jailed for alleged sex acts with student

SANTEE, Calif. – A Mount Carmel High School teacher was behind bars Wednesday for allegedly carrying on a yearslong sexual relationship with a girl who attended the Rancho Penasquitos campus.

Sex-crimes detectives arrested Stacy Michelle Walker, 40, on Wednesday, according to the San Diego Police Department. She was booked into Las Colinas women’s jail in Santee on suspicion of 17 felony counts, including luring a minor for sexual purposes, sodomy, oral copulation of a minor and sexual penetration of a minor with a foreign object.

Stacy Michelle Walker was held on $405,000 bail pending an arraignment hearing on Friday. Image: Mt. Carmel Class of 2002/Facebook

The case has been under investigation since last July, when the alleged victim reported the purported assaults, SDPD Lt. Dan Sayasane said.

The crimes allegedly began when the girl was 15, starting with sexual conversations that led to exchanges of explicit text messages, photographs and videos, and then sex acts, according to police. The offenses allegedly continued until after the student turned 18.

The lieutenant declined to specify where the purported crimes allegedly occurred, saying they took place in “various locations.”

Walker, who was being held on $405,000 bail pending an arraignment hearing scheduled for Friday, was one of two San Diego youth educators arrested within hours of each other for alleged sex-related crimes involving minors.

On Wednesday, 41-year-old Charles Thomas Boyd De Freitas, an associate principal at Hoover High School in City Heights, was jailed on suspicion of possessing and distributing child pornography, police said.

In a press release, the SDPD Sex Crimes Unit said it immediately began its investigation when the victim reported the assault on July 31, 2023.

Arraignment is scheduled for Friday, March 22 at 1:30 p.m. in Department 101 of the San Diego Superior Court.

The SDPD is requesting anyone with information regarding this incident or who believes they know or are the victim of a similar assault should call the SDPD Sex Crimes Unit at (619) 531-2210 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.  (With CNS report)