Crime & Safety
Ex-Charter School Employee Gets 28 Years For Child Sex Abuse
Erick Whiteside, a former employee at ABLE Charter Schools in Stockton pleaded no contest to numerous sexual abuse charges.
STOCKTON, CA — A former charter school employee was given nearly 30 years in prison after pleading no contest to child sexual abuse and other crimes, the San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office said Tuesday.
Erick Whiteside, a former employee at ABLE Charter Schools in Stockton, sexually assaulted a minor between the age of 14 and 17 on two occasions in 2023, prosecutors said, and knowingly sent the boy obscene material "with the intent to gratify or arouse sexual desires."
According to prosecutors, from April 2023 to December 2023 in San Joaquin County, Whiteside posed as a young girl and sent obscene materials to seven additional minors. The District Attorney's Office stated that, although no physical contact occurred in those cases, prosecutors have requested that the court consider financially compensating the victims and issuing protective orders against him.
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In San Mateo County, Whiteside also sexually abused a girl under the age of 14 over the period of September 2006 to December 2010. He pleaded no contest to the continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14, for which he received a 16-year sentence; sodomy of a minor, for which he received 11 years, and distribution of obscene material to a minor, resulting in a one-year sentence.
The total sentence amounts to 28 years in state prison.
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