Teacher and Godmother, Carmina Erica Lopez, abuses 11-year-old

[Unamused Cat]

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Carmina Lopez in court

CHULA VISTA — The teacher made such an impression on the family that they asked her to be their son's godmother.

Yesterday, police accused Carmina Erica Lopez, 32, of using that trust to hide a four-year sexual relationship with the boy, which allegedly began when he was an 11-year-old sixth-grader.

Lopez, a resident of Mission Hills in San Diego, was arrested Wednesday night. She is being held without bail at Las Colinas Detention Facility on 83 counts, including continuous sexual abuse of a child, aggravated sexual assault of a child and sexual intercourse with a minor.

Investigators believe Lopez began having sex with the boy, who is now 15, when she was his teacher in 2004 at Nestor Elementary School in South County, said Chula Vista Police Chief Rick Emerson.

Lopez, currently a fifth-grade teacher at Sunnyslope Elementary School, has been teaching at that Palm City school since 2005.

The boy is seeing a counselor because of psychological problems, and information about the relationship emerged during a session, police said. The boy told the county's Child Welfare Services that Lopez had forced him to have sex with her, authorities said.

The relationship ended in June 2008, police said. They do not know why.

Chula Vista police are handling the case because Lopez lived in that city when many of the alleged offenses occurred. Police said the abuses occurred at Lopez's home, in a car and in school.

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jan/30/1m30teacher232745-teacher-arrested-student-sex-cas/?metro

[Nell]

The relationship ended in June 2008, police said. They do not know why.

He got too old for her?

[philly_phan]

He got too old for her?

Good one...

[joo]

This neighbors reaction made me lmao...

On Manning Way, where Lopez once lived just around the corner from Sunnyslope Elementary, neighbors reacted to the arrest with skepticism.
“Carmina? I don't think so,” said Carmen de Guzman, a longtime next-door neighbor of Lopez. “She loved kids, but not like that. I don't believe it.”

[blue_zombie]

People have more skeletons hiding in their closets than anyone would ever guess. I'm sure that everyone on here can agree that there are things they don't tell anyone, and that if that closet door were ever opened, more bones would fall out than they would care to admit. That doesn't mean all of our skeletons are the murder/incest/sexual predator kind.....I'm just sayin' you never REALLY know people, especially people like your neighbors. So beware!!!! (I have a crazy marine who lives by me, I avoid him AT ALL COSTS!)

[buggysmommy]

I know someone who worked with her-

This woman has a 4 year old child that may belong to the godson!:confused2:

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Bail was reduced from $2 million to $150,000 for an elementary school teacher charged with molesting a boy who was her godson and former student.
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As a precaution, the judge said that if Lopez makes bail, she must stay away from children, with the exception of her 4-year-old son.
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The accusations against Lopez surfaced in January when the boy, who is now 15, wrote a letter to a counselor saying that he had been molested by his teacher, who also was his godmother.

The boy was being held in Juvenile Hall at the time after being arrested in December for threatening an uncle with a baseball bat and punching him in the jaw, according to documents filed in court with the motion to reduce bail.
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Lopez, a single mother, was a fifth-grade teacher at Sunnyslope Elementary School. She was placed on paid leave pending the outcome of her case, school officials have said.http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/feb/18/bn18lopez-bail-reduced/?metro

[Dakota Valkyrie]

A 15-year-old boy told a judge yesterday that his former teacher, who is also his godmother, demanded that he have sex with her over a four-year period in exchange for gifts, alcohol and other favors.

He said Carmina Erica Lopez had sex with him in her car, on a table in her classroom, in her bedroom, in her toddler's bedroom and in a guest room of her home.

“If I wanted a ride home or if I wanted something, then I'd have to have sex with her to get it,” the boy testified in Chula Vista Superior Court.

He said Lopez gave him many gifts, including a dirt bike motorcycle, boots and a radio. He said she also gave him money to buy marijuana and once bought beer for him.

When he threatened to report her, Lopez, the mother of a 4-year-old son, threatened suicide, the boy testified.

“I remember her telling me that if I told, she was going to kill herself and she was going to kill her son,” the boy testified.

Lopez, 33, must stand trial on 10 felony charges of molesting the boy and one charge of furnishing marijuana to a minor, Judge H. Ronald Domnitz ruled. He ordered a May 18 hearing to set a trial date.
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Under questioning by defense lawyer Robert Boyce, the boy acknowledged that he initially told investigators that Lopez had never touched him inappropriately but he said he did that to cover up for her.

At the time, the boy said he was trying to sort out his feelings about what had happened. He also said he had taken advantage of Lopez's desire for sex to get things he wanted.

The boy said he ended the relationship when Lopez told him she wanted to marry him and have children with him. :hmmmm:http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/may/07/1m7lopez233959-boy-15-testifies-he-had-sex-godmoth/