Former Banning Unified School District principal sentenced for lewd acts with child

A former Moreno Valley Unified School District principal was sentenced and forced to register as a sex offender.

Sean McMurray, a former Banning Unified School District teacher and principal at March Mountain High School in the Moreno Valley Unified School District, pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd acts with a minor, the San Bernardino District Attorney’s Office confirmed.

In a news release, a victim said he was sexually abused on multiple occasions by McMurray from 2013 to 2015. During this same time period, McMurray was a teacher at a Banning Unified School District school. Investigators said the victim was not one of McMurray’s students and did not attend any of the schools he previously worked at.

Investigators said they contacted McMurray on April 2018. At the time, he had left his teaching job at BUSD and was working as a principal at March Mountain High. He was arrested for lewd acts with a child and continuous sexual abuse of a child at the end of an interview with police.

McMurray was sentenced to 365 days in county jail, 3-years probation, and had to register as a sex offender.