South Bay Man Arrested for Alleged Sexual Relationship with Child

SOUTH BAY, CA -- A youth counselor who lives in Mountain View has been arrested after allegedly having a sexual relationship with an underage girl staying at a youth home where he worked, San Mateo County sheriff's officials said Jan. 19.

Sheriff's deputies said they were notified late last month by Child Protective Services of an inappropriate relationship between Francis Caceres, 28, of Mountain View, and a 15-year-old girl staying at Your House South, a youth home in Redwood City.

Caceres allegedly met the victim in July and investigators found evidence of a sexual relationship outside of the home. He was fired from the job prior to the start of the investigation.

Caceres, pictured in the above mugshot, was found and arrested on Jan. 12 while working as a youth counselor for Tayler Group Home in San Jose. He was booked into San Mateo County Jail on suspicion of lewd acts with a child.

JT Residential Care Facilities, which operates the group home in San Jose, declined to comment on the case to Bay City News, and no one could immediately be reached at the home in Redwood City.

The investigation is ongoing and anyone with additional information is encouraged to contact San Mateo County Sheriff's Detective Joe Cang at (650) 259-2417 or jcang@smcgov.org.

Bay City News contributed to this report/Image via San Mateo County Sheriff