Aide arrested, suspected of having sex with 17-year-old South Bay student

Mar Vista High School File photo courtesy of Sweetwater Union High School District A woman was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of having sex with a -year-old aspirant while working as a campus aide at an Imperial Beach high school Detectives arrested Lisette Veles Ortega an employee of RO Healthcare a contractor used by Mar Vista High School on multiple counts including engaging in sexual intercourse and oral copulation with a minor according to the San Diego County Sheriff s Office Investigators from the Sheriff s Sexual Assault Unit they responded to the campus Monday after a statement that a contracted learner assistance aide was engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a novice Ortega was being held at Las Colinas women s jail in Santee on bail Her arraignment is set for Friday She also faces charges of arranging a meeting with a minor for the purposes of committing a lewd act communicating with a minor with intent to commit a lewd act and trying to prevent a victim from reporting a crime