{"id":200988,"date":"2026-03-02T20:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200988\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T20:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:03:08","slug":"calabasas-private-school-teacher-secretly-took-pictures-of-female-students-prosecutors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200988\/","title":{"rendered":"Calabasas private school teacher secretly took pictures of female students, prosecutors say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A 39-year-old teacher who worked at a private Calabasas school for 10 years was charged with molestation and secretly taking intimate pictures of at least four students, prosecutors announced Friday. <\/p>\n

The allegations surfaced after an 11-year-old student reported that the teacher was secretly taking pictures of students, prosecutors said in a statement<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Travis Shojinaga, 39, was arrested by deputies Wednesday at Viewpoint School, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department. <\/p>\n

\"Travis <\/p>\n

Travis Takeshi Shojinaga, 39, was arrested at the school.<\/p>\n

(Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office)<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Shojinaga was a teacher at Viewpoint School in the city of Calabasas and has had contact with numerous juveniles in the course of that employment,\u201d sheriff officials said in a statement<\/a>. <\/p>\n

He is being held in custody in lieu of $1 million bail. <\/p>\n

On Friday, Shojinaga was charged with one felony count of possession of child abuse material and four misdemeanor counts of child molestation. He has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said they believe there may be additional victims. <\/p>\n

Officials at Viewpoint School said they became aware of the allegations on Wednesday, the day Shojinaga was arrested. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe immediately launched an investigation and notified the Los Angeles Sheriff Department\u2019s Lost Hills station,\u201d the school said in a statement. \u201cWe are working closely and cooperating with law enforcement as they investigate and have retained an outside investigator to conduct a thorough third-party investigation, closely coordinated with law enforcement and facilitated by campus safety and security.\u201d<\/p>\n

Viewpoint is a K-12 school where annual tuition can run between $45,000 for elementary students, or up to $54,520 for high school students. <\/p>\n

Shojinaga faces up to seven years in state prison if convicted, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 39-year-old teacher who worked at a private Calabasas school for 10 years was charged with molestation and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9574,93353,7,9,8,9665,93354,2424,21803,27477,38738,7214,51500,93352,3025,4574,10384,93351],"class_list":["post-200988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-allegation","tag-calabasas-private-school-teacher","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-deputy-wednesday","tag-female-student","tag-friday","tag-los-angeles-county-sheriff","tag-molestation","tag-picture","tag-prosecutor","tag-sheriff-official","tag-shojinaga","tag-statement","tag-student","tag-teacher","tag-viewpoint-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}