SAN DIEGO (AP) — A onetime county teacher of the year at a Southern California elementary school has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for grooming and sexually assaulting two young ...

Ma had taught in the district since 2013 and had a bachelor’s degree in biology and a master’s in education, both from UC San Diego, according to her teacher of the year profile in the San ...

Jacqueline Ma, a San Diego County educator, ... Ma was named teacher of the year for the 2022-23 academic year by the San Diego County Office of Education.

Jaqueline Ma taught elementary school. In 2022, she won San Diego County's Teacher of the Year title, but less than a year later, Ma was arrested for sexually abusing a 12-year-old in her classroom.

Investigators learned that Ma had groomed the boy for more than a year before she sexually abused him when he was 12 years old, according to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office.

A onetime county teacher of the year at a SoCal elementary school has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for grooming and sexually assaulting two young boys on campus.