From Andy Furillo:
A former Rio Americano High School history teacher who tried to get female students to dress up in skimpy military outfits for photo shoots found out today that his own picture will be posted in perpetuity on the state attorney general's Web site - as a sexual predator.
Sacramento Superior Court Judge Helena R. Gweon listed the lifetime sexual predator registration requirement as one of the many conditions that went along with the sentence she imposed today on Gregory Jackson Rayburn. A jury convicted Rayburn last month on 11 counts of annoying or molesting children and on one count of sexual battery, all misdemeanors.
Already dressed in jail-issue orange, Rayburn, 54, was further remanded into custody to begin serving a three-years sentence at the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center.
The judge ripped Rayburn for "manipulating" the trust embedded in his as a school teacher "in a profound and perverse way."
"You've done a great disservice to your very noble profession of teaching," Gweon told Rayburn.
Gweon also told Rayburn he shamed the military he professed to love by using its aura, as well as his position as a veteran and as a teacher, "to prey on these girls."
Gweon recalled the testimony of one of the victims in the case who said she felt "weird" when Rayburn asked her to pose in a military-styled miniskirt with high heels, but at the same time "not so weird" because the guy who would be taking the picture was a teacher she thought she could trust.
The judge noted that the victims in the case have had their credibility questioned by other Rio Americano students who liked Rayburn. She sought to dispel the notion of Rayburn's innocence, insisting instead that he exhibited "perverse conduct."
"You are a predator," Gweon told Rayburn. "Not the kind that jumps out of bushes, but you picked vulnerable victims. You absolutely should register as a predator. You're not stupid of naive. You chose to ignore their hesitation, discomfort, even their disgust.
"You clearly have a problem," the judge said.
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