Former OC Deputy Showed 'Pornographic' Videos To Mission Viejo Teens, Prosecutors Say

MISSION VIEJO, CA — A former Orange County Sheriff's deputy was charged with showing four teenage girls "pornographic and other graphic videos" while working as a school resource officer at Trabuco Hills High School in Mission Viejo, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said Friday.

Anaheim resident Justin Raymond Ramirez, 34, was charged with one misdemeanor county of distributing harmful material to a minor. He faces a maximum sentences of 364 days in the Orange County Jail if convicted.

According to prosecutors, on Sept. 2, 2022, Ramirez was assigned as a school resource officer at Trabuco Hills High School in Mission Viejo.

He is accused of showing two teenage girls who approached him in his patrol car during lunch a pornographic video that included a woman being stabbed to death, prosecutors said. Prosecutors also said he showed the girls a video that involved drug use.

The students then called two other girls to Ramirez' patrol car, and prosecutors said he showed all four students the graphic videos. The students were between 15 and 16 years old, prosecutors said.

A mother of one of the students called the Orange County Sheriff's Department after her daughter informed her of the deputy showing her and her classmates the graphic videos. Ramirez voluntarily resigned from his position at the OCSD at an unknown date.

"School resource officers are in our children's schools to ensure a safe learning environment and help build trust between law enforcement and our community," Spitzer said in a statement. "Ramirez had no business being in a position of trust around children — and he abused that position of trust in a truly disgusting way."

He is scheduled to be arraigned on March 7 at the Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach.