Anaheim teacher allegedly fathered a child with teenage student – ​​NBC Los Angeles

Police in Orange County are investigating a longtime music teacher who allegedly had a child with one of his former students in the 1980s and may have had another intimate relationship with another student.

On the Lexington High School website and Facebook page, 61-year-old Steve Graves is celebrated as a beloved band teacher and was named OC Band Teacher of the Year in 2018.

But Anaheim police say Graves began his more than 30-year teaching career at Loara High School in Anaheim, where investigators say he had intimate relationships with two of his students.

“Our detectives immediately began investigating the case and discovered that there was another victim. A second victim who was a student at the same time,” said Matt Sutter of the Anaheim Police Department.

Sutter says the second victim also had a child with Graves.

The child is now in her 30s and police say that after all these years, the mother came forward about three weeks ago when she showed up at Anaheim Police Department to report the relationship.

A statement from the Anaheim Union High School District said, in part: “The district was shocked, saddened and dismayed to learn of credible allegations on social media that Graves sexually abused two former high school students 37 years ago.”

According to police, when Graves was being questioned, he took notice of the now grown child.

“It was undisputed that he fathered this child with a student in Loara,” Sutter said.

NBC4 tried unsuccessfully to reach Graves at home and by phone.

Graves was also a teacher at Ball Junior High School and investigators are currently looking into whether he bullied other former students.

“As a father of a daughter attending high school, this case is deeply disturbing to me, as it is to all parents. We trust that when our children go to school, they are in the care and custody of our teachers and educators, and when you hear about something like this, it is truly disturbing,” Sutter said.

Graves was not arrested.

The Orange County District Attorney's Office said charges could not be filed in either case due to the statute of limitations.