Former Fremont Teacher, Pleasanton Resident Charged With Molesting Boy 15 Years Ago

A former Fremont teacher previously convicted of possessing child porn was charged Tuesday with sexually abusing a boy in his classroom 15 years ago. 

According to SFGate, Michael Schoop, 63, of Pleasanton, faces four counts of sodomizing a child under 14. The alleged victim was a second grader at the time.

The incidents allegedly occurred from 1998 and 1999 inside a portable classroom at Mission Valley Elementary School in Fremont, where Schoop taught special needs students for 25 years, the Fremont Argus reports.

Schoop was arrested June 12 in Pleasanton.

However, this isn’t the first time that similar allegations have been made against the former Fremont schoolteacher.

Schoop previously served a year in prison in 2003 after being convicted of possessing child porn on his computer, which he claimed was accidentally downloaded.

The investigation in that previous case began after a man in 2001 claimed he was molested by Schoop from 1967 to 1971,according to the Fremont Argus. The molestation charges were dropped in a plea deal in which he accepted responsibility for possessing the child porn.

SFGate reports that Schoop agreed to register as a sex offender and was stripped of his teaching credential. 

Schoop is being held in lieu of $410,000 bail. A motion to reduce the bail amount was rejected Tuesday.

He is scheduled to return to appear at the Wiley Manuel Courthouse in Oakland on June 26 for a pretrial hearing, according to online court records.