A California high school teacher and LGBTQ+ club moderator was arrested Wednesday for sending lewd messages to a child.
Roger Kavigan, a social science teacher at Foothill High School in Santa Ana, allegedly posed as a minor to carry out his perverted scheme. Orange County Sheriff’s Office said.
Kavigan was arrested five days after police were shown a TikTok video of a 55-year-old teacher exchanging inappropriate text messages with a child by a “male subject,” police said.
After the investigation, the police charged Kavigan with being “a minor for having a text message conversation.”
Kavigan’s employers may have been the ones to report his crime.
In addition to teaching high school, accused Pervert served as a consultant to the Gay Straight Alliance/Gender Sexuality Alliance, School records show. poets were also elected as MP to the Foothills School Site Council in mid-September.
Tustin Unified School District officials told parents they were notified of the incident Saturday night by a student and immediately called police, CBS reported.
Kavigan was “immediately placed on indefinite administrative leave.”
He was booked on suspicion of contacting a minor with intent to sexually assault and is being held on $100,000 bail.