{"id":491390,"date":"2010-03-30T20:34:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T00:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0133ec580df0970b"},"modified":"2010-03-30T20:34:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T00:34:25","slug":"ventura-county-school-board-member-accused-of-sexually-molesting-young-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/491390","title":{"rendered":"Ventura County school board member accused of sexually molesting young girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A board member of Ventura County&#8217;s Rio School District pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he sexually molested a young girl over a five-year period and fathered her child.<\/p>\n<p>Brian E. Martin, 49, entered the plea during a brief session in Ventura County Superior Court.\n<\/p>\n<p>  A mechanic and electrician, Martin has been on the Rio district&#8217;s board of trustees since 2006. He has been active in many community organizations, including the El Rio Little League.\n<\/p>\n<p>  Prosecutors disclosed that they dropped a charge of sexual acts with a child under 10 because the statute did not take effect until September 2006, when the alleged victim was already older than 10. If convicted, Martin faces a possible prison term of about 25 years, Deputy Dist. Atty. Anthony Wold said.\n<\/p>\n<p>  Free on $250,000 bail, he is charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child and causing great bodily injury &#8212; a reference, Wold said, to the girl&#8217;s pregnancy. She reportedly was one of his wife&#8217;s relatives.\n<\/p>\n<p>  The Rio School District runs six elementary schools and two middle schools that serve the unincorporated area of El Rio and parts of Oxnard.\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8212; Steve Chawkins in Ventura<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A board member of Ventura County&#8217;s Rio School District pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he sexually molested a young girl over a five-year period and fathered her child. Brian E. Martin, 49, entered the plea during a brief session in Ventura County Superior Court. A mechanic and electrician, Martin has been on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}