A jury trial is now set for early next year in the sexual abuse case against former San Ramon Valley teacher Nicholas Moseby following a months-long investigation that kicked off with the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office bringing charges against Moseby last year, which have expanded as additional victims have brought forth allegations.
Moseby had previously been set to face a jury starting this Monday (Nov. 6), but the date was vacated in the wake of a readiness conference on Oct. 23. The case readiness conference was rescheduled for March 4 with a new trial date set for March 18.
"This is not uncommon," said Ted Asregadoo, spokesperson for the DA's office. "It tends to happen often in jury trials. So no big bombshell there. But yes, it's been vacated and then they just reset new dates."
With a new date set for the jury trial, Asregadoo said that the process of selecting jurors for March was already underway.
Moseby, who has pleaded not guilty in the case, was first arrested in September 2022, and subsequently removed from his position as a biology teacher at Diablo Vista Middle School, on charges brought by the DA's office from two victims. Additional victims have since come forward, with Moseby facing eight charges from five victims by the time he was ordered to face a jury trial in December 2022. He posted bond on Dec. 29, 2022.
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on Nov 8, 2023 at 4:32 pm
Registered user
on Nov 8, 2023 at 4:32 pm
Remarkably, had Moseby been a student at San Ramon Valley High School instead of a teacher there, he could have gotten his kicks by “identifying” as female and walking into the girls’ locker room while they were changing.
If needed, his excuse could have been that he wanted to join the cheer team — or if already a member himself, that he was seeking new members. And he could have worn sunglasses to hide the precise direction of his gaze.
That sort of abuse actually occurred in an SRV High girls’ locker room ( Web Link ).
But the ADULT teacher Moseby was arrested “on multiple counts of lewd conduct involving minors,” as reported above and in this publication last year ( Web Link ).
He had made girls at SRV High uncomfortable with his comments, so SRVUSD shipped him off to Diablo Vista MIDDLE School, where he apparently committed more serious offenses, involving younger girls there.
One of the counts lodged against Moseby was his alleged showing of pornography to a minor. His mistake was not having gotten himself appointed as a high school librarian, perhaps after being trained and certified by the anything-goes American Library Association.
Then he could have FEATURED pornographic material during “Banned Books Week” and at other times — material which if a stranger were caught handing it to a kid in a park would result in criminal prosecution.
But were he a school librarian in one of SRVUSD’s high schools, he would be celebrated by District leaders as an opponent of censorship — and by the East Bay Times as a heroic defender of “diverse and inclusive literature in school libraries, with supporters arguing that exposure to diverse books can promote empathy and understanding,” even as the Times refused hypocritically to show readers what was involved.