BRIEFLY : MAN ENTERS PLEA IN MOLESTATIONS.BURBANK - A Toluca Lake man, who taught science at Burroughs High School in Burbank for 27 years, pleaded no contest Monday to two counts of child molestation Child molestation is a crime involving a range of indecent or sexual activities between an adult and a child, usually under the age of 14. In psychiatric terms, these acts are sometimes known as pedophilia. involving a girl under 14. Robert Goar, 54, was convicted in Van Nuys Superior Court of one count of lewd acts with a child under the age of 16 and on one count of penetration of a child with a foreign object. Police said Goar's victim was the child of an acquaintance and not a student at Burroughs. Goar is scheduled to be sentenced May 16. He was being held in lieu of Instead of; in place of; in substitution of. It does not mean in addition to. $50,000 bail since his arrest Feb. 21. Goar faces at least eight years in prison, said Sandi Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
Goar, who was chairman of the school's science department, was placed on administrative leave after his arrest. Once charges were filed, his teaching credential A United States teaching credential is a basic multiple or single subject credential obtained upon completion of a bachelor's degree and prescribed professional education requirements. was suspended, and he was placed on a compulsory leave of absence in keeping with California Education Code guidelines. ?13Daily News State DAs boosted child-support total California's district attorneys collected 19 percent more in child support money from dead-beat parents in 1996 over the previous fiscal year - the largest single increase in 13 years, officials reported Monday. The 58 elected district attorneys represented by the California District Attorneys This is a list of current district attorneys of California's counties. Current California District Attorneys County DA Alameda Thomas Orloff Alpine William Richmond Butte Michael Ramsey Calaveras Jeffrey Tuttle Colusa John Poyner Association collected about $1.1 billion in child support for a weekly total of $21 million during the 1995-1996 fiscal year, the group reported. The association also said that over the past five years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time number of absent parents and their assets located rose by 448 percent. Paternities, or the identification of fathers, established showed a 157 percent increase and orders requiring parents to support their children showed a 130 percent growth over the five-year period. But California still has 2.2 million child-support cases that are unresolved and 67 percent of those cases represent families forced onto welfare, officials said. Orange County District Attorney Michael R. Capizzi, president of the District Attorneys Association, said changes in welfare laws will have an effect on child support. ``Welfare is now a limited-time-only survival option,'' he said. ``Families will have to look more to child support, and therefore to us as district attorneys, or to their own resources.'' The district attorneys want legislation to allow them to charge nonsupporting parents with a felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. in serious first-time cases. They also want to require all businesses to report payments over $500 to the Franchise Tax Board and to require financial institutions to report information designed to aid collections. ?13Daily News |
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