Abdel Chehade (4941 Hilo Circle, Huntington Beach, California), 43, wood shop instructor at Los Alamitos High School, Los Alamitos Unified School District, Los Alamitos, California, "accused of engaging in a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl" Employed by North Orange County Regional Occupational Program, Anaheim, California (Los Alamitos USDdenies that he was on their payroll) CBS Local Los Angeles: Ex-Los Alamitos Teacher, 43, Accused Of Having Sexual Relationship With Girl, 15 (Apr 12 2013) A 43-year-old Huntington Beach man [Abdel Chehade] is accused of engaging in a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl ... The former wood shop teacher was arrested near his home Thursday, posted his $100,000 bail and has been released from custody, according to jail records ... Chehade was let go last October after officials received an anonymous tip about an alleged relationship he was having with a student. Police were not able to make a case against Chehade until the alleged victim came forward ... Tags:
Los Alamitos - Seal Beach Patch: Former Teacher at Los Al High Arrested on Suspicion of Sex with Girl, 15 (Apr 12 2013) [Abdel] Chehade had been a North Orange County Regional Occupation Program teacher, who had been assigned to the school in late 2012. School officials would not say whether the alleged victim was a Los Alamitos High School student. According to Tina Dingillo, administrative assistant to the superintendent, district personnel received an anonymous tip late in the day Oct. 3 alleging a relationship between Chehade and a female student. On Oct. 4 the district began their investigation and contacted the Los Alamitos Police Department. Dingillo said Chehade first started work on campus Sept. 11 2012 and has not been on campus since Oct. 4 2012.After school officials passed on the tip, Los Al police began their investigation. Police detectives discovered a relationship between Chehade and the girl but were unable to determine whether the relationship included sexual acts, according to a written release by department spokesman Capt. Bruce McAlpine. However, the investigation remained open, and in March of this year, the girl confided to police detectives that she and Chehade had engaged in unlawful sex acts, according to McAlpine.
Press Telegram: Former teacher at Los Alamitos high arrested on suspicion of sex with student (Apr 12 2013) Authorities said Chehade was a former instructor for the North Orange County Regional Occupation Program, which provides vocational training. Chehade was assigned to the school on Aug. 31, 2011, according to Sherry Kropp, superintendent for the Los Alamitos Unified School District. Kropp said the district received an anonymous tip about Chehade on Oct. 3, and officials immediately contacted the ROP program. Kropp said Chehade hasn't been allowed to work since showing up on Oct. 4 ... Chehade was terminated by the ROP program on Dec. 18, according to Kropp. Whittier Daily News: Former teacher at Los Alamitos high arrested on suspicion of sex with student (Apr 12 2013)
Southwest Riverside News Network: Los Alamitos: Teacher suspected of molesting 15-year-old girl arrested (Apr 12 2013) Abdel Chehade, 43, who was arrested near his home Thursday Apr. 11, posted bail and has been released from custody, according to jail records. Chehade worked for the North Orange County Regional Occupational Program– which offers vocational classes for high school students and adults — and taught classes at Los Alamitos High School, according to Los Alamitos police Capt. Bruce McAlpine. Chehade did not work for the Los Alamitos Unified School District, Supt. Sherry Kropp said. He began teaching classes on campus Aug. 31, 2011, and was let go on Oct. 4 of last year, a day after authorities received an anonymous tip, Kropp said.
Orange County Weekly: Abdel Chehada, Ex-Teacher, Accused of Illegal Sex with Female Los Alamitos High Student (Apr 15 2013) A former North Orange County Regional Occupation Program (NOCROP) teacher assigned to Los Alamitos High School was arrested near his Huntington Beach home over the weekend for allegedly having engaged in unlawful sex acts with a female student in 2012. Abdel Chehada, 43, who left NOCROP the same year, was booked into Orange County Jail in Santa Ana and held on $100,000 bail ... Detectives could not confirm Chehada and the student had an ongoing affair, but the pair are believed to have engaged in unspecified sex acts between May to October 2012, according to the statements, which indicates the girl confided to investigators about unlawful incidents this past March.
Crime Voice: Former Teacher at Los Al High Arrested on Suspicion of Sex with Girl, 15 (Apr 15 2013) A former teacher at Los Alamitos High School was arrested Thursday on suspicion of having sex with a 15-year-old girl, authorities say. Abdel Chehade, a 43-year-old Huntington Beach man, was taken into custody near his home Thursday, according to the Los Alamitos Police Department ... According to Tina Dingillo, administrative assistant to the superintendent, district personnel received an anonymous tip late in the day Oct. 3 alleging a relationship between Chehade and a female student. On Oct. 4 the district began their investigation and contacted the Los Alamitos Police Department ... After school officials passed on the tip, Los Al police began their investigation. Police detectives discovered a relationship between Chehade and the girl but were unable to determine whether the relationship included sexual acts, according to a written release by department spokesman Capt. Bruce McAlpine. However, the investigation remained open, and in March of this year, the girl confided to police detectives that she and Chehade had engaged in unlawful sex acts, according to McAlpine.
Updated information: Abdel Chehade accepted a plea deal January 2016 after his resignation from the US Navy. Confessed to having sex with the student, age 14, and received a one year sentence on March 18, 2016 and must register as a sex offender for life. He spent 5 months in OC jail.
Appears his sister was murdered in 1990, having been arrested previously for drugs and prostitution: Father of Slain Woman Recalls Troubled Past : Crime: Her death did not surprise her family. She had been arrested before on drug and prostitution charges. 21 Dec 1990 The father of a North Hollywood woman whose strangled body was found beside an isolated road north of Ojai said Thursday that his daughter recently wrote home about someone harassing her and said she had planned to seek a restraining order. But Abdel Chehade, 53, of Riverside County said he could shed little more light on the recent death, or life, of his 26-year-old daughter, Najat. He said he had last seen his daughter, the second of four children, about three years ago when she refused to abide by his plan to give up old friends and drugs. News of ... http://articles.latimes.com/1990-12-21/local/me-6986_1_recent-death
Sex offender registration: http://www.homefacts.com/offender-detail/CA38316082E784720160826/Abdel-Hassan-Chehade.html
According to this same father, his son Abdel ll was the "victim" in the molestation case and was very vocal in court as was another sister who often accompanied her brother to court and was present when he plead guilty.
