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Special education teacher charged with having sex with 13-year-old student in her car, giving him pot

Pictured: Colleen Jo Matarico, 43, a resident of Valley Village. A 43-year-old schoolteacher in Los Angeles has been arrested and charged with the alleged sexual assault of a 13-year-old student in her class and investigators believe there may be additional victims, authorities announced Thursday. Colleen Jo Matarico, a resident of Valley Village, was arrested Nov. 7 in connection with the allegations, according to a news release from the Los Angeles Police Department. âMatarico, a teacher, groomed and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old victim in her classroom, and later convinced the victim to have sexual intercourse in her vehicle,â investigators said. Officials did not provide any information on where Matarico teaches, but said after filing the case the L.A. County District Attorneyâs Office, she was charged with five counts of lewd acts with a minor, two counts of lewd acts with a minor 14 or 15 years old and one count of furnishing marijuana to a minor.

Colleen Jo Matarico, 43, of Valley Village, was arrested on Thursday and charged with child molestation and furnishing marijuana to a minor, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The teacher “groomed and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old victim in her classroom, and later convinced the victim to have sexual intercourse in her vehicle,” police said in a statement.

“Detectives believe there are additional, unidentified victims of Matarico who have yet to come forward,” the LAPD said in an appeal for “additional victims of sexual assault.”

The department only listed Matarico as “a teacher,” without saying where she taught. She is listed as a teacher at John Burroughs Middle School in the Hancock Park area of Los Angeles, according to the school’s website.

Her LinkedIn profile states she is a special education teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

The Post has reached out to school officials for comment.

Matarico is charged with five counts of lewd acts with a minor, two counts of lewd acts with a minor 14 or 15 years old and one count of furnishing marijuana to a minor.

She is being held on $1.3 million bail.

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