Women Who Rape
Molesting teacher is sentenced | Chula Vista woman gets 8 years for
sexually involving 2 boys
BILL CALLAHAN Staff Writer SAN DIEGO U-T 25-Oct-1994 Tuesday
A Chula Vista substitute teacher who said her loneliness drove her to
molest two elementary school students -- one more than 100 times -- was
sentenced to eight years in prison yesterday.
Cindy D., 26, offered a sobbing apology in San Diego Municipal
Court to the angry parents of the two boys, one of whom she said she fell
in love with.
"I wish there were words I could say that could take away all the
pain and emotions involved," she said. "I know the words `I'm
sorry' sound so insincere, but I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
The parents were not moved.
"She is a teacher, someone that he was supposed to trust,"
said the mother of one of the boys. "We tell our kids to trust their
parents and trust their teachers. It's people like this that zone in on
good kids.
"His innocence was taken away. She's the adult. She had over a
year to think about what she was doing and she kept on doing it."
Deputy District Attorney Laura Rogers said the sexual offenses occurred
between Sept. 1, 1993, and this July 6, about two weeks before Cindy D.
was arrested.
Police were contacted when a psychologist to whom the part-time instructor
went for help about emotional problems reported Cindy D.'s admissions of
the molestations to the county's Child Protective Services.
Rogers acknowledged Cindy D.'s comments about a lengthy family history
of mental problems but said she committed an unforgivable breach of trust
in her position as a teacher.
"She was an adult working with children," Rogers told Judge
Janet Kintner.
"She had all these mental faculties to say no, but she chose not
to. Her actions were solely selfish. She wanted love and attention, and
she sought it out in a wholly inappropriate way."
Rogers said the two boys were both 11 when the molestations began. Cindy D.
tutored one in his home and was sexually involved with him at least 100
times, the prosecutor said. The other boy was molested one time, in the
company of the other child, Rogers said.
"It was like a sex fest going on at her house, not that there was
other sexual conduct going on, but in that she was introducing children
to (sexually explicit) material before they became adults," Rogers
said.
Cindy D. admitted renting X-rated videos that were shown to the boys
and other elementary students and providing the boy with whom she claimed
to be in love with alcohol, tobacco and food.
She also allowed him to drive her car in a joyride on the freeway when
he was 12 and provided him and other students with water balloons and eggs
that were used in "bombing runs," according to a probation report
filed in the case.
Cindy D. depicted herself in that report as a desperately lonely woman,
unable to establish relationships with adult males or females; one who
initiated an illicit affair with a boy to satisfy her emotional needs.
"I had such an emptiness inside me for so many years I didn't listen
to my conscience telling me that he was just a boy," Cindy D. told
her probation officer.
"He filled that emptiness, and I thought it was love. I knew what
was right and wrong, I just didn't believe in myself enough to listen.
All I wanted was happiness."
Cindy D. also denied she used the movies, alcohol and permissive behavior
to seduce the boy.
She said those actions were prompted by a desire for acceptance by the
boy and other children who realized they could manipulate her to their
advantage.
"I did this because I couldn't lose (the boy)," she said.
(The boys names are not being revealed because it is the policy of The
San Diego Union-Tribune not to publish the names of victims of sexual crimes.)
Cindy D.'s lawyer, Deputy Public Defender Dawn Ella Gilzean, unsuccessfully
requested that Cindy D. be spared a prison term so that she could continue
undergoing therapy for deep-seated emotional problems.
Gilzean noted that Cindy D. admitted her crimes immediately after she
was contacted by police and pleaded guilty early in the criminal proceedings
to spare the children the further possible emotional trauma of testifying
in court.
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