Prosecutors say they expect to file more charges and disclose additional victims after the completion of a wide-ranging investigation of a foster father and youth soccer coach from Esparto accused of child molestation.
Cristan James Rooms, 29, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Yolo Superior Court to 48 felony counts and six misdemeanor counts of molesting or endangering two children for more than four years.
He remains in custody in the Yolo County jail. In December, a court commissioner set his bail at $12 million – $250,000 for each of the felony counts.
Prosecutor Robert Gorman said he expects to file additional charges by the time the parties return to court March 13 and to ask for increased bail.
"I will have disclosed all of the victims (by then)," Gorman told Judge Timothy Fall.
In the hallway of the Woodland courthouse, Gorman said the Yolo County sheriff's investigation is continuing with agencies in Solano and Marin counties contributing.
Rooms was involved with Big Brothers Big Sisters, in addition to being a youth soccer coach in Vacaville and a state- licensed foster parent, Gorman and investigators said.
Gorman said that to his knowledge, Rooms was unmarried.
The prosecutor declined to disclose information about other possible victims, saying he was concerned that providing any details would allow them to be identified in the communities where they live.
"The investigation still has a long way to go," he said.
The prosecutors' complaint lists four dozen instances when Rooms allegedly molested a child 14 or younger by showering with him and improperly touching him. Rooms was a mentor and coach to the boy, sheriff's investigators said.
The assaults started in June 2007 and continued through June of last year, the complaint alleges.
Six child endangerment charges in the complaint relate to another child whose age and gender are unspecified. They stem from incidents that allegedly took place from February to November of last year.
A 6-year-old foster child was removed from Rooms' custody by Yolo County child welfare agents in the weeks before his arrest.
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