One time Clovis Unified counselor heads to prison for abusing teen mentee

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A erstwhile Clovis schoolhouse counsellor who abused a pupil is present heading to situation for 2 years.

"This was an incredibly susceptible victim," Fresno County Superior Court Commissioner Daniel Brickey said.

The victim, a 13-year-old teenage girl, attended Clark Intermediate successful Clovis erstwhile prosecutors accidental Reyes violated his presumption of trust.

"To enactment it rather simply and bluntly, helium was a schoolhouse counsellor who had enactment astatine slightest 7 times with an eighth-grade pupil that helium was mentoring," authoritative Adam Christopherson.

The narration continued from mediate schoolhouse to Clovis High. Christopherson says Reyes would adjacent prime up the miss during summertime break.

"They had enactment successful his surviving room, connected his bed, successful his car," the authoritative said.

Defense lawyer Eric Schweitzer argued the unfortunate initiated the relationship, saying it started with a kiss.

"Nobody's blaming anyone, but the circumstances of the lawsuit are the circumstances of the case," Schweitzer said.

Reyes pleaded nary contention to a lewd enactment upon a child.

He astir avoided situation clip aft a erstwhile justice indicated she would assistance probation. That woody fell isolated connected Wednesday.

"The anterior judge, erstwhile she took the plea, didn't person the probation report," Action News Legal Analyst Tony Capozzi said. "So determination was thing successful that study that this justice thought elevated the condemnation successful this lawsuit from probation to a two-year sentence."

His condemnation could beryllium adjacent less.

"Once the suspect gets successful the situation and starts taking classes and taking antithetic activities wrong the prison, that volition trim his clip substantially," Capozzi said.

Reyes is present ordered to enactment distant from the victim.

"This is not double-digits successful prison. This is simply a two-year term," Commissioner Brickey said. "You volition determination guardant with your life. It volition look differently, but this is not the extremity of your life."

Reyes is ordered to study to situation connected Friday aft helium asked to walk the holidays with his family.