(05/20/09 – Initial BadBadTeacher.com Report)
Daniel “Mr. Danny” Herrera, 52, a longtime employee of the San Diego Unified School District, San Diego, California and a volunteer altar server at three San Diego-area Catholic churches has been arrested on allegations of the sexual assault of a 14-year-old altar boy.
Herrera is reportedly charged with oral copulation by a person over 21 on a person under 16 and committing a lewd act on a child 14 or 15.
Herrera’s most recent assignment with the school district has been that of bus monitor for special-education students.
At an initial court appearance Herrera entered a not guilty plea to the charges and his bond was set in the amount of $100,000 pending a review hearing Friday.
Herrera is scheduled for a readiness conference on May 29th and preliminary hearing on June 2nd.
The alleged molestation occurred late in the year 2005, however the alleged victim did not come forward until last October, at which time the San Diego Catholic Diocese notified police.
Herrera has reportedly been placed on administrative leave by the school system.

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