Former Southwest RivCo School Worker Who Had Sex with Student Sentenced

By City News Service:

A former dormitory supervisor at a Murrieta school for troubled youths was sentenced Wednesday to a year in jail and five years probation for having sex with a student.

Wesley Anthony Langdon, 24, pleaded guilty in October to statutory rape and burglary. In exchange, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office dropped five sex-related misdemeanor and felony charges.

Superior Court Judge Judith Clark certified the plea deal today, imposing the sentence stipulated by the prosecution and defense.

Langdon was arrested last February, a month after a 16-year-old girl reported that the defendant had sexually assaulted her. According to Murrieta police, the teenager, identified in court documents only as “A.W.,” was a student at the Oak Grove Center for Education Treatment and the Arts on Jefferson Avenue.

Oak Grove is a 24-hour residential treatment center geared to adolescents with emotional, behavioral and neurological problems. According to the nonprofit’s website, 76 minors live in dormitories at the Murrieta campus, where they also attend classes daily.

Langdon, who worked as an overnight campus supervisor, focused his attentions on the 16-year-old and harassed two other girls in the same dorm, both of whom told police that he had attempted to hug and kiss them.

The 16-year-old said that on at least two separate occasions, Langdon asked her to join him in a building adjacent to the dorm, where they had sexual encounters.

After speaking with detectives, the youth confronted Langdon via Facebook, prompting the defendant to delete his account, police said.

One of the terms of his probation is that he not seek employment where children are present.

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