Guilty! Andrea Michelle Cardosa, Alhambra, California (arrested Jan 2014)

BBC: US teacher charged with abuse after YouTube video aired (Feb 3 2014)

A $5m (£3m) arrest warrant had been issued for Andrea Cardosa, 40, after she was charged with five counts of aggravated sexual assault on a child. The arrest came after the former student posted a video showing her confronting Ms Cardosa in a phone call. Ms Cardosa is due to appear in court later this week ... Prosecutors said a sheriff's team arrested Ms Cardosa in the city of Perris on Monday evening, just hours after the arrest warrant had been issued.​

 

Press Enterprise: RIVERSIDE: Former teacher charged with molesting two students (Feb 3 2014)

Riverside County prosecutors have filed 16 felony charges against a former Riverside and Perris teacher after one of her former students made allegations and recorded a phone call with the teacher on YouTube. Andrea Michelle Cardosa, 40, was arrested about 5:45 p.m. Monday, Feb. 3, in Perris, said Riverside police Lt. Val Graham. Prosecutors have said her bail would be set at $5 million.​

 

KTLA: Teacher Charged With 16 Felonies After YouTube Video Alleges Sex Abuse — Kimberly Cheng Reports (Feb 3 2014)

A woman who was accused in an emotional YouTube video of sexually abusing a young student beginning in the late 1990s has been charged with 16 felony counts, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday.Kimberly Cheng reports for the KTLA 5 News at 10 on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014.​

New York Daily News: Teacher Charged With 16 Felonies After YouTube Video Alleges Sex Abuse (Feb 3 2014)

 

My Fox LA: Former Teacher Andrea Cardosa Arrested (Feb 4 2014)

40-year-old Andrea Cardosa was arrested early Monday evening in Perris by a Riverside County Sheriffs Department warrant team according to the DA's office. Cardosa, a former teacher and school administrator, was charged with 16 counts of sexual acts on two girls who are now both adults ... Andrea Cardosa is being held on 5 million dollars bail. Her arraignment is expected to be Thursday.​

 

L.A. Times: Teacher in YouTube sex assault case confessed to police, records show (Feb 4 2014)

A former teacher arrested and charged with multiple counts of sex abuse after one of her accusers went public in a YouTube video confessed to detectives that she molested the former student, court records show. Riverside police Det. Roberta Hopewell, in seeking an arrest warrant for Andrea Michelle Cardosa, 40, stated that the former Alhambra assistant principal "admitted to having a sexual relationship" with the teenager when she taught in Riverside County. The detective said Cardosa initially stated the girl was 15 or 16 but later acknowledged she may have been as young as 14, according to a copy of the arrest warrant obtained by The Times.​

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The detectives interviewed Cardosa after the victim posted a video on YouTube of a phone call she made to the teacher in which Cardosa "admits" to the sexual relationship, Hopewell said. Cardosa told detectives the incidents occured in Riverside, Perris and continued when the victim moved to Victorville and Hesperia in San Bernardino County, Hopewell said.​

 

New York Times: California Teacher Accused of Sexual Abuse in YouTube Video Is Arrested (Feb 4 2014)

A former California teacher and school administrator is expected to be arraigned Thursday on 16 felony charges of sexual assault after a former student confronted her over the telephone and then posted a video recording of the conversation on YouTube, according to a statement from the district attorney’s office in Riverside, Calif ... The Riverside District Attorney’s Office said Ms. Cardosa had been charged with five counts of aggravated sexual assault on a child under the age of 14; five counts of lewd acts on a child under the age of 14; six counts of lewd acts on a child 14 or 15 years of age while the defendant is at least 10 years older than the victim.​

 

Opposing Views: California Teacher Accused Of Sexual Abuse In YouTube Video Now Faces 16 Charges (Feb 4 2014)

A former California school teacher has been charged with 16 counts of sexual abuse. The alleged offender is 40-year-old Andrea Cardosa. Cardosa received extensive media attention last month when one of her abuse victims called her on the phone and posted the conversation to YouTube ... In total, Cardosa has been charged with five counts of aggravated sexual assault on a child under the age of 14, five counts of lewd acts on a child under the age of 14, and six counts of lewd acts on a child 14 or 15 years of age while the defendant is at least 10 years older than the victim.​

 

Fox News: California teacher accused on YouTube arrested on sexual abuse charges (Feb 4 2014)

Andrea Cardosa, 40, was charged with five counts of aggravated sexual assault on a child and 11 other counts of abuse and could get life in prison, the Riverside County District Attorney's office said. She was arrested by deputies in the city of Perris soon after the charges were filed, and was expected to be arraigned Thursday, district attorney's spokesman John Hall said.​

 

L.A. Times: Ex-teacher charged in YouTube sex abuse case cleared background checks (Feb 4 2014)

Officials at three school districts that hired a former teacher [Andrea Michelle Cardosa] now accused of sexually assaulting two female students -- one of whom made her accusations public in a YouTube video -- said that each time, she passed all necessary background checks ... Before arriving at Alhambra, Cardosa worked for three other school districts, teaching, serving as vice principal and coaching girls' sports. Each time she was hired, Cardosa passed all necessary background checks, according to officials at the Riverside Unified School District, Val Verde Unified School District and Coalinga-Huron Joint Unified School District.​

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Carillo's attorney, David Ring, said Riverside police and school officials interviewed Carrillo and Cardosa in 1999 but no charges were filed. Riverside police declined to comment on whether there was an investigation, and school officials said they were not aware of prior accusations against Cardosa.​

 

Press Enterprise: RIVERSIDE: Ex-teacher admitted relationship with student, records show (Feb 4 2014)

A former Riverside middle school teacher admitted to police that she had a sexual relationship with a student who accused her on YouTube of molesting her, court records show. Andrea Cardosa, 40, of Perris, told Alhambra police that she had the relationship with the girl when she was her basketball coach at Chemawa Middle School in Riverside, according to court records released Tuesday, Feb. 4. The accuser said the relationship started 16 years ago, when she was 12.​

 

Chicago Tribune: Former teacher charged with 16 felonies in YouTube sex abuse case (Feb 3 2014)

Riverside County prosecutors filed felony charges Monday against a former teacher accused of sexually assaulting two students, one of whom made her accusations public in a video posted on YouTube. A $5-million warrant has been issued for the arrest of 40-year-old Andrea Michelle Cardosa, the Riverside County district attorney's office said. Cardosa has been charged with 16 counts related to aggravated sexual assault and lewd acts on a child under the age of 14, officials said. Prosecutors said the charges relate to two female victims: One who was allegedly assaulted between 1997 and 2001 while she attended middle and high school in Riverside, and one who allegedly was abused in 2009 or 2010 as a high school student in Perris.​

 

NBC News: Ex-Teacher Charged With Sex Crimes (Feb 4 2014)

A 40-year-old woman was charged with having illegal sexual contact with two underage girls while she was a teacher and school administrator in Southern California, prosecutors said on Monday. Andrea Michelle Cardosa has been charged with 16 felony counts, including aggravated sexual assault on a child under the age of 14, lewd acts on a child under the age of 14, and six counts of lewd acts on a child 14 or 15 years of age while the defendant is at least 10 years older than the victim, according to the Riverside County District Attorney's Office ... "There are counts that carry potential life sentences. When you have counts that carry potential life sentebces, there's no statute of limitations restrictions on those," Riverside County District Attorney Spokesman John Hall said. ​

 

Sky News: YouTube Sex Abuse Video: Teacher Charged (Feb 4 2014)

A California school administrator accused by a former student of sexual abuse in a YouTube video has been charged. Andrea Cardosa, 40, faces 16 counts of sexually abusing two girls. If convicted, she could get life in prison, the Riverside County District Attorney's office said.​

 

Oakland Press: California teacher confronted on Youtube charged with sexual assault (Feb 4 2014)

Andrea Cardosa, 40, who resigned last month as Alhambra High’s vice principal, was arrested on a $5 million warrant, according to a D.A. press release late Monday. If convicted, Cardosa could be sentenced to life in prison, authorities said. Cardosa faces arraignment on five counts of aggravated sexual assault on a child under 14, five counts of lewd acts on a child under 14, and six counts of lewd acts on a child 14 or 15 years of age while the defendant is at least 10 years older than the victim. ​

 

Huffington Post: Andrea Cardosa, Teacher In YouTube Child Sex Case, Acknowledged Crime: Cops (Feb 5 2014)

In her first police interview after a YouTube video was posted accusing her of child sex abuse, a California educator acknowledged she had a sexual relationship with a young student, who later told detectives she had been molested "too many times to count" between the ages of 12 and 14 by the woman who was then her basketball coach, according to a newly released court filing. In an arrest declaration obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday, Riverside police Detective Roberta Hopewell said 40-year-old Andrea Cardosa told police in a Jan. 20 interview at the school where she worked as vice principal that she had a previous sexual relationship with the now-28-year-old woman. She also acknowledged it in the video of a phone call posted on YouTube three days earlier that's been viewed nearly a million times.​

 

CBS Atlanta: California educator due in court Friday, accused on YouTube of sexual abuse (Mar 6 2014)

A California educator arrested after a former student accused her in a YouTube video of sexual abuse had her arraignment pushed back yet again Friday, meaning she won't formally answer to the charges for another six weeks ... But, while Cardosa was in court, she wasn't arraigned. According to John Hall, a spokesman for the district attorney's office, her arraignment was continued to April 18 at the defense's request. Cardosa's lawyers also plan to ask to reduce her bail then, Hall said.​

 

Huffington Post: Arraignment Delayed For Andrea Cardosa, Educator Accused On YouTube Of Sex Crimes (Mar 7 2014)

Arraignment was postponed Friday for a California educator who was charged with sex crimes after a former student made sexual-abuse allegations against the educator on YouTube. Andrea Cardosa, 40, appeared briefly in Riverside County Superior Court, smiled sadly and winked at about a dozen supporters.​

Defense attorney Randy Collins said outside court that the arraignment was postponed to April 18 to give him time to argue that the charges should be dismissed because of the statute of limitations. Collins said he has learned that Riverside police investigated the allegations in 1998, which would preclude prosecutors from bringing forward a case so many years later.​

 

San Bernardino Sun: Arraignment postponed for former Alhambra High School educator accused of sex crimes (Mar 8 2014)

An arraignment scheduled for the former educator charged with 16 counts of sex crimes with a minor was postponed until April 18 ... Defense attorney Randy Collins plans to discuss bail, as well as a motion to dismiss the charges, at the next court hearing.​

 

KSPR: Teacher charged in sex case in court Friday (Mar 6 2014)

Andrea Michelle Cardosa was charged in February with five counts of aggravated sexual assault on a child and 11 counts of lewd acts on a child, the the Riverside County district attorney's office said. Her arraignment, originally scheduled for Thursday, was moved to 9 a.m. (noon ET) Friday.​

 

KSPR: Arraignment pushed for teacher in sex case (Mar 6 2014)

Andrea Michelle Cardosa was charged in February with five counts of aggravated sexual assault on a child and 11 counts of lewd acts on a child, the the Riverside County district attorney's office said. Her arraignment, originally scheduled for Thursday, was moved to 9 a.m. (noon ET) Friday. But, while Cardosa was in court, she wasn't arraigned. According to John Hall, a spokesman for the district attorney's office, her arraignment was continued to April 18 at the defense's request. Cardosa's lawyers also plan to ask to reduce her bail then, Hall said.​