The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office filed charges Thursday against a junior varsity basketball coach at Don Lugo High School who was arrested earlier this week for alleged sexual abuse.
Valerie Segura, 20, of Ontario has been charged with two misdemeanor counts of child molesting, one felony count of contact with a minor for sexual offense and one felony count of sending harmful matter to a minor for purpose of seducing, according to court records.
Charges were filed Thursday. Arraignment information was not available.
Officials believe the crimes happened between Dec. 5, 2012, and Dec. 3, 2013, according to the criminal complaint.
Segura knew the victim, identified only as Jane Doe, was a minor and unlawfully contacted and communicated with Jane Doe with the intent to commit a felony, according to the complaint.
Segura also distributed harmful matter to Jane Doe “with the intent to arouse, to appeal to, and/or to gratify the lust, passions and/or sexual desires of the defendant and/or of Jane Doe, and with the intent to seduce a minor,” according to the complaint.
Lastly, Segura is charged with annoying and molesting Jane Doe, who was under the age of 18, according to the complaint.
Segura was taken into custody Tuesday at Don Lugo following a home basketball game against Glendora High.
That same day she was placed on administrative leave, “pending an investigation of an allegation of sexual misconduct involving a student at the school,” Chino Valley Unified spokeswoman Julie Gobin said Wednesday.
Segura graduated from Don Lugo in 2012. She played girls varsity basketball and in her senior year, was named an All-Mt. Baldy League first team member.
The second-year walk-on coach was booked into West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, where she was being held in lieu of $25,000 bail.
Staff writer Beau Yarbrough contributed to this report.
