Teacher charged for alleged sex with Student

A Hemet High School teacher who allegedly had sexual encounters with one of her male students was charged Monday with statutory rape and other felonies. Janel Pearl Ramirez, 32, could face 20 years in prison if convicted of unlawful intercourse with a minor and two counts of oral copulation of a child under 18 years old.

Ramirez remains free on $100,000 bail.

He was arrested March 1 after a Riverside County sheriff’s investigation revealed the woman had allegedly performed sex acts on her 17-year-old teacher’s aide.

According to sheriff’s investigators, the alleged encounters primarily
occurred last fall, always in the defendant’s classroom.

Ramirez allegedly told the youth, whose name has not been released, that
he reminded her of actor Taylor Lautner from the “Twilight” film saga.
The ninth-grade English teacher was reportedly having marital problems
at the time of the encounters.

The Hemet Unified School District has not released any statements
regarding Ramirez’s employment status.

Ramirez is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday at the Southwest Justice
Center in Murrieta.