A teacher in Richmond, California, has been arrested for allegedly molesting more than half a dozen students over the past year, authorities said.
Anessa Paige Gower, a 35-year-old biology teacher at Making Waves Academy in Richmond, is facing 29 individual criminal counts after allegedly engaging in “numerous acts of a sexual nature with minors” between 2021 and 2022, the Costa District Attorney’s Office said in a statement.