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Westminster, California – from www.ocregister.com – Two married teachers face arraignment Friday on charges they engaged in illegal sex acts with a 17-year-old boy for several months after they groomed him by plying him with alcohol and entertaining him in their Huntington Beach home.
Gay Davidson-Shepard, 59, a teacher at Mesa View Middle School in Huntington Beach, faces up to eight years and four months in prison if convicted of the charges.
Her husband, Daniel Alma Shepard, 61, a retired Westminster High School biology teacher, could spend five years behind bars if the charges stick.
Both are accused of sexually assaulting the boy starting in April 2009 after they got into their hot tub naked and encouraged the minor to do the same.
According to prosecutors, Daniel Shepard continued to engage in illegal sex acts with the boy on a weekly basis through September 2009, while his wife is charged with doing the same through December 2009, when the boy turned 18.
Prosecutors allege that Daniel Shepard first befriended the boy when he was a student at Westminster High.
In addition to engaging in illegal sex with a minor, Daniel Shepard is accused of asking the boy to email him nude photos of himself and of taking nude photographs of the victim and the illegal sex acts.
Prosecutors said the case came to light this March when the young man came forward to his mother, who contacted Westminster police. Police arrested the Shepards on Wednesday, when they also were charged.
Both were held in lieu of $150,000 bail and, as of Thursday morning, remain in jail, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department website.
The Shepards are scheduled to be arraigned at 9 a.m. Friday in Department W-15 at the West Justice Center in Westminster.
Daniel Shepard has been charged with two felony counts of oral copulation of a minor, one felony count of sodomy with a person younger than 18, one felony count of possession and control of child pornography and one misdemeanor count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Davidson-Shepard has been charged with three felony counts each of unlawful sexual intercourse, sodomy with a person younger than 18, oral copulation of a minor and one misdemeanor count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.