Mt. Carmel High Teacher Faces Multiple Charges in Alleged 3-Year Relationship with Student

A Mount Carmel High School teacher was behind bars Thursday for allegedly carrying on a years-long sexual relationship with a girl who attended the Rancho Peñasquitos campus.

Sex-crimes detectives arrested Stacy Michelle Walker, 40, on Wednesday, according to the San Diego Police Department.

She was booked into Las Colinas women’s jail in Santee on suspicion of 17 felony counts, including luring a minor for sexual purposes, sodomy, oral copulation of a minor and sexual penetration of a minor with a foreign object.

The case has been under investigation since last July, when the alleged victim reported the purported assaults, Lt. Dan Sayasane said.

The crimes allegedly began when the girl was 15, starting with conversations that led to exchanges of explicit text messages, photographs and videos, and then sex acts, according to police. The offenses allegedly continued until after the student turned 18.

The lieutenant declined to specify where the alleged crimes might have occurred, saying they took place in “various locations.”

Walker, who was being held on $405,000 bail pending her Friday arraignment, was one of two San Diego educators arrested within hours of each other for alleged sex-related crimes involving minors.

On Wednesday, Charles Thomas Boyd De Freitas, 41, an associate principal at Hoover High School in City Heights, was jailed on suspicion of possessing and distributing child pornography, police said.

– City News Service

Updated 5:20 p.m. March 21, 2024