A 46-year-old high school teacher in the Montebello Unified School District was in custody Saturday for the alleged statutory rape of a 17-year-old student.
Brian Lee Ward was arrested about 2:30 p.m. in the 7200 block of Comstock Avenue by Whittier police detectives for an alleged past sexual relationship with a young woman who no longer attends Vail High School, where Ward taught, according to Whittier police spokesman John Scoggins.
The allegations against Ward were passed on to police by Montebello school officials after they learned about the alleged sexual activity with the student last year.
The alleged sexual relationship supposedly took place at Ward’s residence on Comstock Avenue. The girl was not his student at the time but did attend Vail High School.
Whittier police booked Ward on a statutory rape charge Friday. He is currently being held in the Whittier jail in lieu of $100,000 bail, according to police. No court date has yet been set.
Anyone with information about this case was asked to call Whittier police at (562) 567-9255.
— City News Service