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The former teacher, Andrea Michelle Cardosa, pleaded guilty
last month to three counts of lewd acts with a child in a deal
that spared her from a possible life sentence, said Riverside
County District Attorney's Office spokesman John Hall.
Cardosa was charged last year with abusing two girls over a
13-year-period while teaching at schools they attended in
Riverside and Perris, both suburbs east of Los Angeles.
The case grew out of a video posted on YouTube last February in
which a woman confronted Cardosa, accused her of abuse, and said
she had ruined her childhood. In the video, Cardosa expresses
regret and says the abuse was not anything she had intended.
The victim who uploaded the video addressed the court on Monday,
according to the Riverside Press-Enterprise newspaper, saying,
"I will stand up for my 12-year-old self who did not have anyone
to fight for her."
"It is never OK for an adult to betray the trust of a child,"
she said.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Robert
Birsel)
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