Now-former teacher arrested after allegedly being discovered in 16-year-old girl’s bedroom by her mother — after originally being charged with molesting same student

Patrick Mester appears inset against the high school where he used to work.

Inset: Patrick Mester (Modesto Police Department). Background: Enochs High School (Google Maps).

A now-former teacher in California is behind bars after he was found in a teenage girl’s bedroom, authorities said.

Patrick John Mester, 65, stands accused of two counts each of arranging to meet with a minor for lewd purposes and lewd acts with a minor who is 14 or 15 years old, according to Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office records.

The defendant was originally arrested in 2021 — promptly causing him to lose his job as a teacher at James C. Enochs High School in Modesto, a large city roughly 80 miles west of Oakland.

The criminal investigation took substantially longer.

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