Former teacher convicted of having sex with her student at O.C. high school

An Orange County woman who worked as a high school band teacher was convicted Wednesday of having sex with a student.

Carlie Attebury, 31, of Orange was found guilty on four counts stemming from her sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy for nearly a year. Prosecutors alleged that Attebury befriended the student in 2007 while working at El Modena High School in Orange.

The two regularly met at Attebury’s home and exchanged sexually explicit text messages, prosecutors said.

Attebury came to the notice of police a few months later when she reported an extortion attempt by a former El Modena student who demanded $3,500 and sexually explicit photos to keep quiet about her  relationship with him.

Miguel Lopez, who was 23 at the time, was arrested and eventually pleaded guilty to one count of felony extortion. He was sentenced to three years' probation.

In 2008, parents contacted El Modena’s principal after they allegedly saw her caressing the 15-year-old’s hair at a school event. Attebury is scheduled to be sentenced in January.

-- Robert J. Lopez

Comments

[charlie]

I have never understood the problem of a 15 year old having sex with anyone...I started having sex when I was 13 and i was seduced by a 12 year old girl. I would have much prefered my first "time" to have been with a woman....but she would have been
breaking the "law"....I am now 68 and still can't figure out that logic.

[JC]

I wish my band teacher was like that. I wouldn't say a word.

[Stan Oldman]

I'd like to thank my 26 year old teacher for teaching me all about sex AND self-respect, self-esteem, and confidence as well as respect for women - when I was 15. Over the four years we were close she also taught me about emotional responsibility, intellectual growth, and social grace - the sex turned out to be a small part of it. So all you sexually repressed moral hypocrites and puritanical pagan worshipers can go straight to you know where. Why not just mind your own businesses and let some people enjoy sex? Oddly there are few, if any complaints, from teenage boys and older women and sex, so why create them?

[j m]

I hear wedding bells.

[Just Say'n]

I just wonder, do women get the same treatment that men get when their convicted of a crime as this in prison?, because it seems that the poor child victim in this case is having a tougher time then she is, and the treatment he's getting from his peers

[chris]

Equal Justice under the law, man, woman does not matter same crime same time.

//you have come a long way baby.