SMC Middle School Teacher Sentenced For Sex Acts With Student: DA

REDWOOD CITY, CA — A former Daly City middle school music teacher was sentenced on Monday to more than a decade in state prison after being convicted of over a dozen counts of child sex acts involving a student, San Mateo County District Attorney’s Stephen Wagstaffe said.

Marcus Deon Dyson, 52, was sentenced Monday by Judge Kevin Dunleavy to 10 years and 8 months, prosecutors said. The sentencing follows his plea of no contest on Sept. 19 to a total of 14 felony counts: six counts of sexual intercourse with a child under 16, and eight counts of oral copulation on a child under 18, prosecutors said.

Dyson, who worked at Robertson Middle School, began what prosecutors described as a sexual relationship with the 14-year-old victim in 2014. According to the DA's office, the acts took place both at the middle school and at Dyson’s home.

The relationship persisted for several years, continuing until the victim graduated from high school in 2018, prosecutors said. Dyson provided the victim with a key to his apartment when she was 16 and introduced her to his mother and children, prosecutors said.