(KRON) — A trial is underway for a former San Bruno elementary college instructor charged with sexually abusing his college students. Jeremy Pakyin Yeh, 34, of San Mateo, will probably be again in a Redwood Metropolis courtroom on Wednesday for the fifth day of his jury trial.
Yeh taught 1st and 2nd grades at El Crystal Elementary College and Decimal Allen Elementary College in San Bruno, prosecutors stated.
Yeh is charged with 22 counts and he’s presently out of custody on $1.3 million bond. If jurors discover the ex-teacher responsible, he may face life in jail, prosecutors stated.
“Between 2016 and 2022, defendant touched several of his 1st and 2nd grade students on the vagina and buttocks, over the clothes and under the clothes. The first victim came forward in 2018 but was called a liar by the administration at El Crystal Elementary School,” the San Mateo County District Lawyer’s Workplace wrote.
After the primary sufferer was accused of mendacity for talking out, Yeh continued to molest extra college students, in response to SMCDAO.
In 2022, one other sufferer got here ahead. Yeh was a 2nd-grade instructor at Decimal Allen Elementary College when he was arrested in 2022 on suspicion of molesting feminine college students, the San Bruno police chief stated.
“This is obviously a very disturbing case, one that is weighing heavily on the detectives who are handling it,” San Bruno Police Division Chief Ryan Johansen stated after the instructor’s arrest.
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The DA’s workplace stated Yeh confessed to police that he inappropriately touched one of many victims. Prosecutors wrote, “Four victims in total were discovered to have been touched by the defendant while he was their teacher.”
Superior Courtroom Decide Michael Wendler is presiding over the jury trial.
