An athletic trainer has been charged with sexually assaulting at least 10 girls at two Los Angeles high schools since 2017, authorities said.
Richard Alexander Turner, 64, was charged with 18 counts of rape, sexual battery, sexual assault of an unconscious person and forcible oral copulation against female students he worked with from 2017 to 2022, according to a criminal complaint made public Tuesday.
Turner, who has served as an athletic trainer at Van Nuys High School and Birmingham Community Charter High School, was arrested last week on suspicion of sexual assault, a day after a Birmingham student accused him of touching her inappropriately, according to Los Angeles Police Dept. Capt. Jeff Bratcher, who leads the agency’s juvenile division.
