30-year-old Jeffrey Simonek has spent the last two years in jail being held on $20 million bail. Mr. Simonek was charged with numerous counts of committing lewd acts with children under 14. It took nearly two years for the case to come to trial at a Los Angeles Superior Court and only two days for a jury to acquit him on all charges. Simonek was a fifth grade teacher in El Segundo when he was charged with the crimes in 2013. Originally he faced 20 counts of lewd acts upon a child under 14, but nine of those charges were dismissed before even being heard by a jury. The defense adamantly denied the allegations and compared the case to a modern day witch-hunt against a gay teacher.
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