Former Kings Canyon Unified teacher to stand trial for sex crimes against student

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Nearly 3 years aft a erstwhile Kings Canyon Unified teacher was arrested for sexually abusing a student, a justice ruled she would caput to trial.

Wednesday morning, Krystal Jackson sat successful Fresno County Superior Court often looking down astatine the array successful beforehand of her oregon to her defence lawyer arsenic investigators presented compartment telephone grounds successful the case.

Jackson is accused of 4 felony enactment crimes involving a pupil who was 14 years old.

Detectives learned the lad was portion of an autarkic survey programme astatine Mountain View School and would conscionable with Jackson play astatine Dunlap Leadership Academy.

They said Jackson sexually assaulted the lad during those meetings.

On Wednesday, detectives testified to what they recovered connected the victim's phones successful their investigation.

"The allegation was helium had received a representation of a gestation test," said Det. Jose Leon, Fresno County Sheriff's Office. "When I received the archetypal extraction from Post Falls Police Department, determination was successful information a representation of a gestation test. As acold arsenic determining if that 1 came from her compartment phone, that's thing 1 of the forensic examiners mightiness beryllium amended suited to answer."

Another researcher described what helium recovered aft information was pulled from Jackson's phone, saying determination was impervious she had wiped her telephone connected August 22, 2021, conscionable days earlier she was arrested successful aboriginal September.

"You tin mill reset your phone, arsenic if you're handing it disconnected to idiosyncratic that you don't know, you don't privation your accusation to beryllium connected it," said Walden O'Neill, Investigator Fresno County DA. "You tin bash that to instrumentality each of your accusation disconnected of the device."

Minutes aft the wipe, the researcher reported the telephone was restored from a anterior backup.

Jackson remains retired connected enslaved and is owed backmost successful tribunal connected August 21. She faces 5 years and 4 months successful situation if convicted connected each charges.

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