A classroom aide who worked with disabled students in San Francisco public schools has been charged with several felonies for allegedly sexually abusing a child for years.
San Francisco Unified School District paraeducator Calvin Tran, 36, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of sexual assault over a period between 2015 and 2018.
Prosecutors say Tran molested a child in multiple locations, including at Francisco Middle School, where the victim was a student.
Tran appeared in court Friday, where a judge denied bail because of the public safety risk he poses, according to the San Francisco district attorney’s office.
He’s set to be arraigned Dec. 3 at the Hall of Justice.
Tran faces charges of committing lewd acts on a child, continuous sexual abuse, oral copulation of a person under 14, aggravated sexual assault of a child, forcible oral copulation of a minor 14 or older, and four counts of meeting a minor for lewd purposes. The criminal complaint accuses Tran of “substantial sexual conduct” with the victim.
According to the San Francisco Police Department, the victim filed a report about the abuse in August. The resulting investigation by the Special Victim’s Unit corroborated claims that Tran carried on an inappropriate relationship for several years until the victim was a teenager, the SFPD said in a news release.
“The victim was a student in a school where the suspect was a teacher,” police siad.
On Thursday, the SFPD’s fugitive recovery team found Tran at Mission and Ney streets and arrested him.
The SFPD says it’s working closely with SFUSD “to address safety issues for its students and staff in and around schools.”
The SFUSD did not respond to a request for comment.
Though charges have been filed, police are still investigating the case and urge anyone with information to call detectives at (415) 575-4444 or text TIP411 with a message starting with “SFPD.”