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Chelsie Napiza

Therapist, 26, Charged With Grooming a Teenage Boy She Counselled in Juvenile Hall, Abuses Him After Release

Contra Costa County prosecutors charged juvenile hall therapist Sofia Drotts with seven felonies over the alleged grooming and sexual abuse of a teenage boy in her care. (Credit: Kelly Sikkema via Unsplash)

A county therapist assigned to help a teenage boy through his time in juvenile detention instead spent months grooming him for sexual abuse, prosecutors in Northern California allege, exploiting the very sessions meant to rehabilitate him.

Sofia Ann-Buitron Drotts, 26, has been charged with seven felonies over her alleged conduct towards a boy she counselled while working at a Contra Costa County juvenile hall. Prosecutors say the grooming began while he was in custody and that a sexual relationship followed after his release, when she allegedly continued to see him under the guise of therapy.

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