DANVILLE — A Bay Space center college trainer and cheer coach accused of sexually abusing two women was employed regardless of not less than three prison prosecutions towards him since 2009, together with one involving costs that he solicited a prostitute in 2015, based on court docket information.
Nicholas Moseby, 41, of Harmony, was charged by Contra Costa prosecutors final week with sexually abusing two women, aged 13 and 15, and sending a lewd video of himself to one in all them. Since his arrest, this information group has discovered that Moseby has been charged with misdemeanors in Arizona, Santa Barbara, and most not too long ago, Alameda County, in 2016.
The prostitution solicitation case stemmed from a November 2015 arrest when Moseby allegedly answered a prostitution advert that undercover Oakland cops arrange. He was arrested when he arrived at a lodge on Mandela Parkway after agreeing to a $120 price, based on authorities.
However in Gilbert, Arizona, the place Moseby was charged with offering alcohol to a teen in 2009, and in Santa Barbara, the place he was charged with being intoxicated in public in 2010, Moseby’s instances have been by no means totally resolved. In September 2010, a Santa Barbara decide issued an arrest warrant for Moseby after he did not arrive at his arraignment listening to. In December 2009, a Maricopa County decide additionally issued a warrant for Moseby’s failure to undergo court-ordered fingerprinting. Gilbert police declare that warrant was nonetheless energetic when Moseby was employed as a San Ramon Valley Excessive Faculty trainer final yr, although authorities within the Bay Space say neither warrant confirmed up when Moseby was arrested final week.
On the time of his arrest, Moseby labored as each a center college biology trainer and as a cheerleading coach for Nor Cal Elites, a non-public youth cheer group. One of many women Moseby is accused of molesting attended Nor Cal Elites. The opposite was a district college scholar who attended a PE class the place Moseby substituted. This information group is just not naming which college she attended or when the alleged offense occurred to guard the woman’s identification.
When he was employed as a trainer in 2020, Moseby disclosed that he had been charged with offering alcohol to a minor, however didn’t inform the district about his more moderen prostitution cost, district officers mentioned. Within the the Arizona case, Moseby was accused of shopping for alcohol for a 17-year-old woman who was buddies with an 18-year-old highschool scholar who attended the college the place then 28-year-old Moseby labored on the time, based on authorities.
On Monday, San Ramon Valley Unified Faculty District Superintendent John Malloy introduced an “inner evaluation” of each the district’s background checks for brand spanking new hirings and of practices for “managing considerations and complaints” of lecturers or employees, including that the prostitution arrest didn’t present up on Moseby’s background examine.
“It's regarding that reference checks and the required studies from our justice system and the fee for trainer credentialing raised no flags,” Malloy mentioned in a written assertion. “We are actually reviewing each side of our personal hiring practices so as to add further layers of backgrounding which is probably not required by legislation, however for my part, are an absolute should with a purpose to be sure that one thing like this by no means occurs once more.”
Jason Runckel, a former prosecutor and civil legal professional for each of Moseby’s alleged victims, mentioned in an interview that there have been a number of complaints involving inappropriate conduct by Moseby final yr, which weren’t correctly adopted up on. Moseby was transferred from the highschool to Diablo Vista Center Faculty in 2021.
“There isn't a excuse, justification, or rationalization as to why the San Ramon Valley Unified Faculty District and Nor Cal Elites employed him together with his previous crimes in Alameda County and Arizona,” Runckel mentioned. “It’s equally disturbing SVRUSD staff referred their very own college students to him for one-on-one trainings.”
A spokeswoman for Nor Cal Elites mentioned the group had no thought about Moseby’s prosecution arrest till this information group requested them for remark about it.
Police started investigating Moseby earlier this month, after one of many women’ fathers reported that a cheerleading coach despatched her a video of himself masturbating on social media. Throughout an interview with police, the woman mentioned that Moseby added her on Snapchat, requested for an image of her “booty,” then despatched a video of himself masturbating on a brown sofa. Authorities say they discovered a video that matched her description throughout a search of Moseby’s Snapchat account. The woman additionally alleged Moseby inappropriately touched her throughout a exercise session.
The second woman alleged that Moseby rubbed his non-public elements towards her bottom throughout a PE class, and that he appeared sexually aroused, based on court docket information. Authorities say they’ve recognized extra potential victims and are within the means of investigating these claims. It's unclear at this level whether or not further costs can be filed towards Moseby.
At his first court docket look Monday, Moseby’s public defender declined to enter a plea however requested for an opportunity to argue that Moseby’s bail be lowered. He's at present in custody in lieu of $200,000 bail. Moseby’s arraignment has been set for subsequent week in Martinez.
Nicholas Moseby’s stepmother, Elizabeth Moseby, mentioned in an e-mail to this newspaper she believes her stepson is the sufferer of a “vendetta” that's “fueled by racial hatred” on the Danville colleges the place he taught. She mentioned college students have beens disciplined for threatening Moseby and that not less than one of many threats included a racial slur.
Data obtained by this newspaper say that final Could 26, San Ramon Valley Excessive Faculty’s principal, Whitney Cottrell, despatched a message to college students and fogeys saying that one of many college’s “beloved lecturers” was receiving texts and calls calling him a racial slur. The trainer is just not named.