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Hardwood Babylon: A decade later, Mater Dei High School’s still protecting a coach accused of sleeping with students

Editor’s note: The names of the alleged victims and students in this story have been changed.



In the spring of 1996, an English teacher at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana snatched the following note as students tried to pass it across her classroom:



Linda,
Charles told me, did you hear about Coach Andrade & I said no, what? He goes coach fucked a girl that comes here & I play it off, like Naah. I go who? He goes I don’t know. Some junior. I guess he doesn’t know or maybe he knows that I know. But I swear to God I didn’t tell anyone.

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Andrade. Photo from 1995 Mater D...