They claimed their high school coach sexually abused them years ago. Now he's in custody
LOS ANGELES — Michael Guzman was a popular teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School in El Sereno around the turn of the century.
He taught history and coached the girls' basketball team.
But more than two decades later — after he had moved on to different schools in different districts — Guzman, an assistant principal at Gabrielino High in San Gabriel, was arrested this month and charged with four counts of lewd acts on a child stemming from allegations from about 20 years ago, according to court documents and interviews with two of the alleged victims.
Though so much time has passed, the victims — Maria Barajas and Clarissa Vizcaino — who went to the Los Angeles Police Department decades after the
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