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Ventura County prosecutors say educator is charged with molesting multiple students

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They say the 42-year-old Thousand Oaks man committed a series of crimes from 2015 to 2019, while a counselor at a Santa Paula school.

Ventura County prosecutors say a former school counselor in Santa Paula has been charged with molesting eight children.

David Lane Braff Junior is facing 17 felony molestation counts. Prosecutors say the incidents occurred between 2015 and 2019 at McKevett Elementary School. The now 42-year-old man was a school counselor at the school at the time.

They say the victims were between six and ten years old, and that the crimes occurred on campus.

At the time of his arrest, the Thousand Oaks man was an assistant principal, and school counselor at a charter school in the San Fernando Valley. Investigators say they are trying to determine if there are more potential victims.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.