A staff member at a now-shuttered Utah school for troubled youth is facing charges after authorities confirmed he fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl who had been a student.
Atonio Kavea, 28, was arrested last week in St. George for allegedly having a sexual relationship with the girl, who he met while she was a student at Red Rock Canyon School.
California authorities have charged him with two felony crimes and are now seeking to have him extradited there, according to police in Porterville, Calif.
The girl reported to police last August that she was pregnant, and said the father of her child was an employee of Red Rock Canyon School.