Rancho Santa Fe swim instructor accused of molesting second student; deputies asking others to come forward [Breaking]
A week after a Rancho Santa Fe swim instructor was arrested and accused of molesting a 7-year-old student during lessons, sheriff’s deputies are asking other students to come forward if they think they were victimized.
Piazza was arrested Sept. 29, a day after the 7-year-old told his mother that Piazza had touched him on two separate occasions during private lessons that month, Sgt. Howard Kluge said in a news release. The mother contacted Child Welfare Services, and that agency referred the matter to the Sheriff’s Department’s child abuse investigators.At the time, Piazza was out of custody on $250,000 bail following accusations that he molested a boy in July 2021.
According to the prosecutor, the judge noted that Piazza had been out on bail at the time of the new allegation, and that he’d been accused of similar conduct in both cases. Defense attorney Kerry Armstrong, who is representing Piazza in the first case, said Thursday he “felt very good about our chances for success” at the trial that was supposed to start this week. Armstrong said there’s a 13-minute video of the swimming lesson in which the alleged incident is said to have occurred in 2021, and he has watched it dozens of times.
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