Joseph Horace Green, 52, of Lancaster was charged with four counts of unlawful sexual intercourse and one count of each of sodomy and sexual penetration by a foreign object.
Chanell Nicola Warren, 43, of Los Angeles was charged with one count of sexual penetration by a foreign object and six counts of oral copulation of a person under the age of 18.
The defendants were scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Department 30 of the Foltz Criminal Justice Center.
Deputy District Attorney Christine Von Helmolt of the Sex Crimes Division is prosecuting the case.
Green is accused of approaching a teenage girl in early 2000 when he and Warren ran the K-12 Enlightened Minds School. In February 2000, the pair allegedly took the victim to an RV parked in front of their home and sexually assaulted her. Over the next several weeks, Green and Warren are accused of additional sexual assaults on the girl.
The couple fled after the alleged crimes were reported to police in March 2000. They were arrested last month in Florida.
If convicted as charged, Green faces up to six years and four months in state prison, while Warren faces up to an eight-year prison term.
Green is a registered sex offender from Lancaster, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. He was convicted of sexual battery in 1996, according to the Megan’s Law website.
The case remains under investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery-Homicide Division.
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Tongueyuh says
Not only was a registered sex offender running a school but how is he a repeat offender and getting less time then her? I swear our judicial system is something else!! Makes no flippin sense
SD says
Back then there was not much screening done and website like Family Watch Dog where it lost sex offenders in your neighborhood were not very well know. I went to Palmdale high school and graduated in 2000. Turns out I had an assistant football coach that was a Registered sex offender (rape by force) which was committed long before he became a coach. So now that you can check yourself online, check to make sure your kids coaches and scout leaders etc are good. Even then, be cautious they may have not been caught yet. This is an epidemic
simonsayz says
Did I miss some type of information in this article??? How was Green able to run a school, while being a registered sex offender? So not did these sick individual…(to say the least) do harm to this girl but the los Angeles county didn’t protect her!! How was this possible, who was responsible for the back ground check.