Elementary School Teacher Arrested on Molestation Charges

By Zoneil Maharaj

A former Fremont teacher previously convicted of possessing child porn was arrested last week on charges of child molestations. 

According to SFGate, Michael Schoop, 63, of Pleasanton, was arrested June 12 on suspicion of sodomizing and having sexual intercourse with a child.

Schoop was a teacher at Fremont’s Mission Valley Elementary School for more than 25 years, SFGate reports.

Details of the current case were not revealed in media reports.

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 but was scheduled for a bail reduction hearing Tuesday morning, according to online court records.