Woodland High School Teacher Arrested, Charged With Child Molestation: Police

YOLO COUNTY, CA -- Police in Woodland say they arrested a high school teacher Friday morning on charges that he inappropriately touched a female student.

At about 10 a.m. on Friday, May 5, a Woodland police officer and a detective responded to Woodland High School after school district officials learned of and reported that a teacher, later identified as 44-year-old Woodland resident Scott Sorgent, had allegedly touched one of his female students in an inappropriate manner, police say.

Further investigation by the officers revealed that Sorgent had allegedly touched the female student in a lewd manner after school had ended Thursday, May 4, and made suggestive comments about her body.

Sorgent, who has taught at the school since August 2016, was arrested for a violation of 288(c )(1) of the California Penal Code-Committing a lewd act on a child of 14 or 15 years when the perpetrator is at least 10 years older than the victim-a felony. He was booked into the Yolo County Jail and is currently on administrative leave, according to the Woodland Joint Unified School District.

Police say the investigation is till active and that anyone who may have witnessed or been a victim of similar acts by Sorgent can contact the Woodland Police Department at (530) 666-2411.

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