Crime & Safety
Orange County School Trustee Called 15-Year-Old Teen 'Sexy', DA Says
A former Brea Olinda Board trustee was charged with two felony counts of contacting a minor with intent to commit a specified offense.
ORANGE COUNTY, CA — A former Brea Olinda Unified School Board trustee contacted a 15-year-old boy while he was a trustee in Las Vegas and asked him to send a photo, the Orange County District Attorney's Office said.
Christopher Gerard Becerra, 42, was charged with two felony counts of contacting a minor with intent to commit a specified offense, one misdemeanor count of annoying or molesting a person believed to be a child, one misdemeanor count of attempting to induce false testimony, and one misdemeanor count of annoying or molesting a child under 18 years of age, prosecutors said.
He faces a maximum sentence of one year and 10 months in state prison plus two years and three months in the Orange County Jail if convicted on all charges.
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Brea police began investigating allegations that Becerra, who was at the time an elected member of the Brea Olinda Unified School Board, was sending social media messages to a 15-year-old former student of the school district.
The boy had since transferred out of Becerra's school district, police said.
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The victim told his father of the messages that asked the boy to send him a photo and called him "sexy," even after he was told he was only 15-years-old.
He is accused of being in Las Vegas with a school district employee while he attempted to convinced the 15-year-old boy to send him pictures. Police said Becerra then called the employee after he was interviewed by police to encourage her to say that he lost his phone during the trip.
Becerra is also accused of exchanging several text messages between Oct. 2025 and Nov. 2025 with a 17-year-old boy where he also asked for a photo and called him "sexy."
He was arrested by the Brea Police Department in Dec. 2025 and his seat on the Brea Olinda Unified school board was declared vacant last month after he failed to attend any board meetings since Nov. 2025.
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