EAST COUNTY COURTS — A La Mesa man faces charges of texting sexual messages and sending photographs to a student while he was her music teacher at a Christian high school, police said.
Evan Mathew Stecklair, 26, who reportedly has left his post at Foothills Christian High School in El Cajon, was arraigned yesterday in El Cajon Superior Court on three felony counts of sending harmful matter to a 16-year-old girl. He pleaded not guilty.
“The pictures were pornographic,” El Cajon police Lt. Timothy Henton said.
Investigators jailed Stecklair on felony charges May 1 after searching his home and seizing his cell phone and computer, Henton said. Stecklair is free on bail.
He is suspected of sending the student suggestive text messages for five days in late April. Then he sent photos that were “not something a 16-year-old girl should be getting a picture of, in phone mail,” Henton said.
After receiving the photos, the girl told an adult, who called police April 30.
Henton said Stecklair was hired at Foothills Christian High in January 2008. He said he believes Stecklair is no longer employed there. Stecklair does not appear on a list of teachers at Foothills. The principal could not be reached last night for comment.
Stecklair is named on the Foothills Christian Church Web site as the married leader of a Saturday night worship team, guitarist, songwriter and member of an alternative worship band. –P.R.
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