Former school board member who fathered a child with teen girl sentenced to prison

A former Ventura County school board member who fathered a child with a young girl has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for sexual abuse.

Brian E. Martin, 49, a member of the Rio School District board since 2006, was sentenced Thursday after earlier pleading guilty to continuously sexually abusing the girl from the time she was 10 and inflicting great bodily harm by impregnating her. Martin also pleaded guilty to an additional charge of committing a lewd act on a child.

After Martin's guilty plea, Ventura County supervisors ordered a review of the county's procedures for dealing with child abuse complaints. The girl, now 15, is among four children who Martin and his wife, Cristina Carreño Martin, took in after a relative of hers with drug problems abandoned them six years ago. 

The girl's baby boy, born in December, has been placed with an adoptive family. According to Rio School Board President Tim Blaylock, the abuse emerged after the girl "confided to some of her classmates." In interviews with social workers, the girl denied any sexual relationship with Martin, Blaylock told the Times last month.

The Martins have been active in many civic causes. He volunteered with Little League. She ran for the state Assembly in 2006 and is president of Ventura Marina Rotary International.

-- Richard Winton

Comments

[Emile Zola]

This case and many others regarding under-age children having sex depict America's hypocrisy to a tee and to super size that it becomes so contradictory that, even though the purpose of a law is to exercize justice, the oppossite is true. If a minor has sex with other minors, it is called "experimentation", but if one of the minors is over 18, it becomes a crime, but if that minor kills some one, then the minor who couldn't say no, becomes a mafia hit man and it's treated as an adult. This judicial head I win, tails you lose can't be called justice. And even worse, why the minor, girl or boy, continues going for more and more and then after many times, suddenly it becomes, in some cases, eqaul or worse to capital murder. Excesses are always wrong and just because a law is passed doesn't make it fair or just. Of course, I'm not talking about rape, because if rape is the case, then age shouldn't matter, even if one of the parties is 90 years old, but we don't need to be throwing away the baby with the water. Justice means a fair punishment for a crime. Excesses are never good, judicially or physically.

[moley]

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