Tuesday, 08 July 2025

Former ‘Teacher Of The Year’ Sentenced For S*xually Abusing Elementary School Students

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A former ‘Teacher of the Year’ in California was sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexually abusing two of her sixth-grade students.

Jacqueline Ma, 36, San Diego County’s Teacher of the Year in late 2022, pleaded guilty in February to “two counts each of forcible lewd acts on a child and possession of matter depicting a minor engaging in sexual conduct,” the New York Post reports.

She taught fifth- and sixth-grade students at Lincoln Acres Elementary School in National City.

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From the New York Post:

At her sentencing Friday, Ma said she was “deeply ashamed of my actions,” and apologized for ripping “away their childhood.”

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“Instead of following the path of what a teacher should be, I let my selfishness override the boys’ best interests,” she told the court through tears.

“I just pray for an extra hand of protection and strength to all of those I’ve hurt. I’m so sorry.”

Police began investigating Ma after the mother of a 12-year-old boy she’d been grooming contacted authorities upon finding love letters and suggestive text messages she’d written to the child.

The grooming occurred over a 10-month period, prosecutors said.

Years before, police claim Ma had also groomed an 11-year-old boy.

“This defendant violated the trust she had with her students in the most extreme and traumatic way possible and her actions are despicable,” District Attorney Summer Stephan said, according to Fox News.

“Her victims will have to deal with a lifetime of negative effects and her 30-year sentence is appropriate,” Stephan added.

Fox News reports:

Ma had groomed young boys with “gifts, food and special attention and even completed their homework for them,” the district attorney’s office said.

Ma was arrested in March 2023 after prosecutors said the parents of a 12-year-old boy discovered inappropriate messages on a family tablet between their son and Ma.

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Despite the boy’s parents not allowing him to have social media or his own electronics, Ma was able to communicate with him through an unsanctioned after-school program and through a school chat application, the district attorney’s office said.

Ma groomed the boy for over a year before she sexually assaulted him in her classroom over a period of three months while his parents believed he was participating in an after-school basketball program, prosecutors said.


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