Educator pleads guilty to sex assault in YouTube case

FILE - This Feb. 3, 2014 file law enforcement booking photo from the Riverside, Calif., Police Department shows Andrea Michelle Cardosa. Cardosa, 40, an educator who was confronted with allegations of abuse in a phone call by a former student who then posted the conversation on YouTube, has pleaded guilty to sexual assault charges involving two victims. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports that Cardosa entered pleas Friday, Jan. 23, 2015 to three counts of lewd acts with a child under 14. (AP Photo/Riverside Police Department, File) FILE - This Feb. 3, 2014 file law enforcement booking photo from the Riverside, Calif., Police Department shows Andrea Michelle Cardosa. Cardosa, 40, an educator who was confronted with allegations of abuse in a phone call by a former student who then posted the conversation on YouTube, has pleaded guilty to sexual assault charges involving two victims. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports that Cardosa entered pleas Friday, Jan. 23, 2015 to three counts of lewd acts with a child under 14. (AP Photo/Riverside Police Department, File)

By Associated Press January 24, 2015 2 min read

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) – A California educator who was confronted with allegations of abuse in a phone call by a former student who then posted the conversation on YouTube has pleaded guilty to sexual-assault charges involving two victims.

Andrea Cardosa, a former assistant principal, entered pleas Friday to three counts of lewd acts with a child under 14, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reports (http://bit.ly/1CzrY9F ).

The charges carry a maximum sentence of 10 years, eight months in prison. Sentencing was scheduled for Feb. 9.

Cardosa was charged last February with 16 felony counts, including five counts of aggravated assault on a child.

Cardosa abused one former student, who is now 28, from 1997 to 2001, starting when the child was 12 and attending Chemawa Middle School in Riverside, prosecutors said.