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.
Yep.
thanks! Old age setting in here :(
That's not in their mindset... in their minds, THEY didn't screw-up... HE DID. The vermin was just behaving as vermin do... but the nanny-mindset cannot accept this.
Socialist-libs are the weakest link of our species.
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Response: Why was he not hung for this offense?
Gee...look at all those fine American surnames. The multiculturalists must be proud. We have allowed the scum of the earth to invade our country and infest our tax-payer-funded social services, where they pass out favors to their fellow countrymen. All of these social services scams should be defunded and their administrators fired.
Thai, I'd say...
Your generalizations mis-characterize huge areas of Nebraska and Oregon populated with conservatives. Both states are stained by their large liberal metropolitan centers which contain the majority of the voting population. 90% of both states are great places to live.
For some strange reason, I'm having a little trouble getting too worked up about this.
Although it is a crime, I see a consensual act as a much lower level issue than armed burglary and murder, even though the victim us underage. (And yes, I have a teen-aged daughter)
I don't want to give him a pass or anything like that, I just don't have a big sense of outrage here.
What he's done is wrong, but given the group of losers and hope to be ex-losers that are the clientele of the Academy of Alternatives, I'm not very surprised that 'stuff' happens.
Yeah, I think so.
...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.
They sure don't fool around in Oregon however! /s
Someone ping me when the Vegas lines are up on this one. I'll lay a cool 100K that says we hear this guy's name again within 24 months of 2011 or whenever he's released from that tremendously stringent sentence if not that stiff 5-year max. /s
The silver lining, at 27, if this guy lives to say 72, with a string of "maximum penalties," this guy can only "rape and sodomize" only 7 more 15-year old girls, assuming a year in between his last jail term and sentencing for the next.
"This was an isolated incident," she said.
That would be only 9 lifetime "isolated instances" when one includes the original murder and this one.
Boy, you sure don't want to be a child rapist and sodomist in Oregon. Tough laws! Then again, the sentence will likely be a lot more reasonable and much more in accordcance to and befitting of the crime, say what, a year or two using Oregon's liberal judicial ideologies? /s
That would however increase the number of "isolated instances" dramatically. Not that they'd have anything to do with this douchebag or one another or anything!
I guess that's part of it.
They're Cambodian aka Khmer. It's possible that a grandparent was a member of the KKK (not the American racist one, a Cambodian ethnic group in Vietnam that fought for the USA and was then subjected to genocide by the Communists).
Unfortunately, a lot of Southeast Asian refugees have been overwhelmed by America, and a lot of their kids get into crime and gang activity. It's sad (and far from automatic; the two refugee orphans I knew best turned into college-educated super citizens). But the fact that their minority group is a bit down and out is no excuse for turning to crime. In the final analysis, that's always an individual decision, and yet the liberals always want to let the criminals off.
Probably cause they don't know any refugee orphans trying to grow up straight and not get sucked into gang life. Although that certainly wouldn't fly as an excuse for these losers with their alternative school -- at a school like that, you deal with nothing but problem, mostly violent, youths.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
People should get ONE "isolated incident"
Ditto! Agreed.
I don't have a clue how people (judges) rationalize one abuser getting more chances while utterly ruining the lives of many others, not simply victims.
Then when it's their family (the judges'), well then there's hell to pay. Kind of like contempt of court. Judges can be in contempt of court and justice all they want, but how dare someone else be in contempt while uttering the truth.
Assuming he gets caught every time. And how many others were there at this "academy"? Thinking there was only one?
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