Teacher's Aide Guilty of Sex with Girl, 16

(Daly City, California) A 24-year-old teacher's aide at El Camino High School, Melody Ybona Gawliu, has pleaded no contest to one count of oral copulation with a 16-year-old female student she met at summer camp.

Naked photos of the girl were found on Gawliu's cell phone.

Gawliu worked as a teacher’s aide at El Camino High School in South San Francisco when, between Sept. 1, 2007 and Jan. 25, she engaged in a romantic relationship with a teen student she met that summer while serving as a counselor, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

Teachers reported the situation to Child Protective Services after becoming suspicious of Gawliu after she brought balloons to school for the girl’s 17th birthday and Daly City police reported finding nude photos of the girl on Gawliu’s phone as well as a text message telling the girl to say to authorities nothing happened between them.

According to the plea agreement, Gawliu will receive no more than a year in jail and she will not have to register as a sex offender.

I predict she gets probation when sentenced.