Upland student teacher jailed story still in top 10

Daniel Harold Sundstrom, 47, often stared at the girl in class, offered her a ride home and befriended her on MySpace.com before telling her he wanted to have sex with her, according to a statement the girl read aloud in court on Wednesday.

Sundstrom, an Upland resident, served as a teacher's assistant in an 8th-grade math class at Pioneer Junior High School for the last quarter of the 2007-08 school year.

After Sundstrom contacted the girl on MySpace - a popular social-networking Web site - she told her mother. The mother then contacted Upland police.

Police, posing as the girl, exchanged messages with Sundstrom online and arranged a meeting between him and the girl at Memorial Park in Upland.

Sundstrom was arrested June 19 when he arrived at the park for the meeting.

Prosecutors charged Sundstrom with two felonies and a misdemeanor for his contact with the teen. He agreed to plead no contest to one felony last month as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors.

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