Arraignment postponed for Diamond Bar teacher
Arraignment was postponed Tuesday for a Diamond Bar teacher who authorities allege was having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student.
Steven Shane Andrews, 41, was scheduled to be arraigned in Pomona Superior Court, but the proceedings were postponed, confirmed Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
Andrews, a teacher at Lorbeer Middle School, faces 18 felony counts stemming from an alleged relationship with the girl from May through September, according to a criminal complaint filed in Superior Court by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
Andrews is scheduled to return to court Nov. 1 for arraignment on the charges, Gibbons said.
The defendant is being held at Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles in lieu of $450,000 bail, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Sheriff's Sgt. Nancy Drake reported on Oct. 17 that the girl told investigators that she had a sexual relationship with Andrews while she was in the eighth grade at Lorbeer, in the 2010-2011 school year.
The school is in the Pomona Unified School District.
The defendant surrendered to deputies on Sept. 30 at a sheriff's station in Walnut.
Andrews faces six counts each of sexual penetration with a foreign object and unlawful sexual intercourse with a child, three counts of lewd acts with a child, two counts of oral copulation with a child under 16 and one count of first-degree residential burglary, according to the criminal complaint.
mike.cruz@inlandnewspapers.com, @sbcourts
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