Posted on 05/29/2006 12:48:32 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
GRESHAM -- A teacher's aide at the Academy of Alternatives School in Gresham, who was convicted of murder at age 16, was arrested last week in the rape and sodomy of a 15-year-old student.
Sgt. Teddi Lofton, a spokeswoman for the Gresham Police Department, said 27-year-old Daniel Alcazar of Southeast Portland, was arrested May 18.
Alcazar is being held without bail in the Justice Center Jail for violating the terms of his probation while a grand jury considers charges of third-degree rape and third-degree sodomy against him, Lofton said.
If charged and convicted, Alcazar faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison, and a $125,000 fine for each count, both class C felonies.
The alleged incident involving the 15-year-old girl occurred between Jan. 15 and Feb. 15. Lofton said police do not believe there are any other potential victims.
"This was an isolated incident," she said.
Jay Scalise, director of the Academy of Alternatives, found out about the incident at a regular meeting with the student, parents and staff. During the meeting, Scalise said he learned that the sexual contact was consensual.
Scalise immediately called the Department of Human Services, the police, took Alcazar's keys and threw him out of the building.
"I am horrified. It is just devastating," said Scalise. "We all feel violated. It is a betrayal of the student, the population here, this entire school of people who trusted him."
Scalise's rules at the school state that no student should be alone with a teacher at any time.
The school serves special education students as well as students with academic and social challenges and those dealing with drug, alcohol and gang problems. It is located at 18201 Southeast Stark Street.
Miguel Tellez, a program manager at Morrison Child and Family Services, is one of the leaders of the school's drug, alcohol and gang intervention group. He began mentoring Alcazar in November, at the request of administrators from the Going Home Program, a federally funded initiative that helps gang-affiliated and violent offenders adjust upon their return to society.
Tellez, along with officials from the Going Home program recommended Alcazar for a teaching assistant position at the alternative school.
"Of course, I wish hadn't let him come here now," Scalise said. "But I never saw an indication that this wasn't a good thing."
Alcazar was sentenced to 12 years in prison in July 1995 for the August 1994 killing of 42-year-old Joan Ann Borisch. Borisch was shot in the chest and killed during a burglary at her Southeast Portland home.
Facing aggravated murder charges, Alcazar and then-16-year-old Somphalavan Sophanthavong both implicated then-18-year-old Mixay Xay Dethsayongkham as having shot Borisch. Alcazar and Sophanthavong were convicted of murder and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
According to court records, Dethsayongkham pleaded guilty to aggravated murder in 1996 and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Perrin Damon, spokeswoman for Oregon State Department of Corrections, said Alcazar was in prison from August 1995 through October 2005.
The Academy of Alternatives, with 120 students, draws from throughout east Multnomah County including the David Douglas, Gresham-Barlow and Reynolds school districts.
Each year, the districts contract with the school to send a certain number of students there. The contracts keep the school open. With districts launching their own investigations as a result of Alcazar's arrest, the school's future is uncertain.
Thats legal in Vermont right?? and that one judge in Nebraska if your 'too short' for prison
Listen....hear that?
Of course you don't. It's the deafening silence from the people who say "Attaboy!" to the schoolboys who get laid by female teachers.
Kent, you're in the Seattle area. Tell me, are they soft-pedaling the DUI conviction of Vili Fualaau as much locally as much as they are nationally?
Of the temporary guest worker Alcazars? "Just doing who Americans won't do."
"This was an isolated incident," she said.
Well, yeah. Apart from the murder and burglary he committed before. It's not like they had any reason to make assumptions about this young gentleman's character, eh.
Scalise said he learned that the sexual contact was consensual.
Having seen the picture of Alcazar, and understanding that the girl was a student in Scalise's school, may I suggest that the school let her down on the old "inculcating self-esteem" deal?
Scalise... took Alcazar's keys and threw him out of the building.
Ooh! Way to go, Scalise, you thilly thavage. That sure showed him. And after all, he's gotten so far on respect for other folks' locked doors... er, maybe not so much.
"I am horrified. It is just devastating," said Scalise. "We all feel violated."
You pompous, self-important, narcissistic windbag. You feel violated? Earth to Scalise: YOU were not the one who was violated here. Somebody that the state very unwisely entrusted into your charge was the one who was violated, and she faces the lifetime consequences of that because you were more intent on earning your liberal brownie points by keeping a tame murderer around as a pet, than it doing your duty.
I was listening to the radio news today. A teacher who was accused of "inappropriate touching" saved the state the costs of trial by hanging himself from a railroad bridge with an extension cord. Scalise is every inch as guilty as Alcazar here -- he knew, or should have known, what would result -- and I recommend he Google up some railroad bridges, then unplug his computer and go do the right thing.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
English translation: "A judge has ruled that no matter how violent or sociopathic we must still attempt to "school" juvenile offenders until they are old enough for an adult prison sentence to stick."
Miguel Tellez...is one of the leaders of the school's drug, alcohol and gang intervention group.
I bet he stays up late worrying about Alcazar taking his job...
He began mentoring Alcazar in November,
I think the jury's in on your mentoring job, Miguel.
a federally funded initiative that helps gang-affiliated and violent offenders adjust upon their return to society.
Translation: "welfare for dregs that will never amount to anything ought to be sent to the organ donor pool, Red-China-style."
Tellez, along with officials from the Going Home program recommended Alcazar for a teaching assistant position at the alternative school.
Prediction: This jerk will still be recommending criminals to schools next year, and clueless liberal administrators will still be welcoming them, and then being "horrified!" when they revert to type.
"I never saw an indication that this wasn't a good thing."
That was Scalise again. Here's your indication, brain-dead: "Alcazar was sentenced to 12 years in prison in July 1995 for the August 1994 killing of 42-year-old Joan Ann Borisch. Borisch was shot in the chest and killed during a burglary at her Southeast Portland home."
That is what we call "an indication that this wasn't a good thing," out here in the real world where actions have consequences.
Somphalavan Sophanthavong and Mixay Xay Dethsayongkham
Yeah, those Sophathavong and Dethsayonkham families have been nothing but trouble since they stepped off the Mayflower.
Alcazar and Sophanthavong were convicted of murder and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
So there's another one of the little dears that's out already. Gotta love blue-state liberal judges. I wonder what school he's a teachers' aide in?
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
FYI, the same organization that administers the Going Home Program also offers gardening and yoga programs for convicts.
Because you know, people only commit crimes because of low self-esteem and a lack of flexibility.
/sarcasm
How in the hell did a convicted murder get hired? I don't care if he was 16 when he did the crime. Oregon is certainly a socialist dung heap.
Well there's a Federal program that needs defunding immediately.
Oh, sure. That's right. Rub it in, whydon'cha...? :)
Tell me, are they soft-pedaling the DUI conviction of Vili Fualaau as much locally as much as they are nationally?
Honestly? I gotta give this loathsome leftist sumphole that much in the way of (reluctant) credit, at least: even HERE, the whole Letourneau/Fualaau thing is regarded, almost universally, as a classic case of "EWWWWWWWWWW -- !!!"
I won't say one never, ever, ever sees sympathetic coverage of that awful pair, hereabouts -- this is The People's Glorious Republik of Seattle, after all -- but, by and large: no real attempts to "happy face" either one of the two human grotesqueries, OR their innumerable (and all-too-cringingly-public) faux pas.
What's with these names??
I thought the same thing. Also, was the rape victim male or female?
*Ahem* "The alleged incident involving the 15-year-old girl [...]" :)
Vermont, Oregon, Nebraska... It's all the same.
Outstanding comments bump!
Whoever hired this perp with that background should be tried as an accomplice
"I am horrified. It is just devastating," said Scalise. "We all feel violated."
Already playing the victim card. What happened to stepping up and saying I screwed up?
12 years for murder and 5 years for rape, Oregon is really cracking down.
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