Two assistant principals at a high school in Rialto were charged Wednesday after prosecutors alleged they failed to report on-campus sexual assaults by a student.
Rialto police said they were first notified around 6:30 p.m. Feb. 16 of a sexual battery at the high school, and an initial report indicated that a 17-year-old male student had sexually assaulted a 15-year-old female student several times over the course of three months. Police found that the victim told Yang and Harris about the assaults in November.
Detectives issued a citation to the 17-year-old suspect and released him into his parents’ custody pending criminal charges, police said. The mother said school officials pressured her daughter to keep quiet about her allegations of assault.Dist. Atty. Jason Anderson said in a statement that the assistant principals’ failure to report the assaults to authorities erodes the trust that students and parents place in school officials.