SANTA ROSA β At school, two year-old girls say they began relationships with two coaches, describing about two or three months of sex, drugs and partying in motel rooms, bedrooms and pickup trucks along the rural back roads of Santa Rosa. In February, interim Superintendent Yolanda Chapa told investigators she had suspended Cepeda and Flores amid allegations of sexual relationships with students. According to the affidavit, Cepeda asked her not to disclose their relationship for the sake of his children and family.
Cepeda also asked her to send him nude photographs of herself, the girl testified in the affidavit. Through a girlfriend, she met Flores, a coach at Joe Nelson Middle School, who drove her and Cepeda to the motel, according to the affidavit. In her affidavit, the girl also testified Cepeda, who used steroids from the United Kingdom, allegedly sold the drugs to Flores and other coaches. As part of the investigation, authorities also interviewed another year-old girl who said she had a sexual relationship with Flores.
In her affidavit, the girl told investigators she was in eighth grade when she met Flores, who worked around her school. The girl said she had sex with Flores twice at his home from November or December to early Through her best friend, she met a year-old Santa Rosa High School graduate who was a friend of Flores, she said.
The girl testified the two men smoked marijuana and drank alcohol with her and three other girls. In May, a Cameron County grand jury indicted the coaches on charges stemming from allegations of sexual relationships with students. Late last month, Cisneros confirmed local, state and federal authorities are trying to identify individuals involved in those alleged incidents while investigating whether they were covered up. Sorola charged Cepeda with one count of improper relationship and six counts of sexual assault, all second-degree felonies.
Flores was charged with one count of improper relationship, two counts of sexual assault and four counts of delivery of a controlled substance or marijuana.
