VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. – On Friday, Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced that David Lane Braff, former school counselor at McKevett Elementary School in Santa Paula, was arrested for the molestation of eight children.
Braff, 42, of Thousand Oaks, will be arraigned on 17 felony counts of lewd acts on a child under the age of 14 on Monday, Nov. 25, in courtroom 13 of Ventura County Superior Court stated the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office in a press release Friday.
Braff also faces the following special allegations and aggravating factors in the criminal complaint:
- PC 667.61(c)(e)(4)-Multiple Victims
- CRC 4.421(a)(3)-Victim was Vulnerable
- CRC 4.421(a)(8)-Manner in which the Crime was Carried Out Indicates Planning, Sophistication, or Professionalism
- CRC 4.421(a)(11)-Defendant Took Advantage of a Position of Trust
From 2015 through 2019, Braff worked as a school counselor at McKevett Elementary where he is alleged to have molested children between the ages of six and ten in a school office detailed the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office…