Giovanny GutierrezMolina
A former soccer coach at a now-shuttered charter school near Redwood City pleaded no contest to statutory rape and other charges stemming from a case involving two students, the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday.
Palo Alto resident Anthony Giovanny GutierrezMolina, 31, worked at the now-closed Summit Everest High School in North Fair Oaks as a coach and program manager. The school closed last year.
In March, GutierrezMolina was arrested and subsequently charged with 12 counts of statutory rape and six counts of oral copulation with a person under the age of 18. He pleaded no contest to three counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and two counts of felony oral copulation with a minor.
According to prosecutors, GutierrezMolina “became very friendly” with a 16-year-old girl who was part of the community engagement program he ran at the school. In March 2023, he brought the girl to his home and they began a sexual relationship that lasted through November 2024.
The sexual interactions also occurred on school property. The relationship ended only after GutierrezMolina’s wife told him she was pregnant, according to District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe.
A second girl was drawn into a sexual relationship with GutierrezMolina and they had sex three times at his home, prosecutors said.
GutierrezMolina is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 8 and is facing up to two years and eight months in state prison, Wagstaffe said. Though he was originally held on $1 million bail, he is currently out of custody on $500,000 bail.
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