Former Assistant Principal Sentenced 8 Years for Molesting Girls at California Schools
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A former assistant principal has been sentenced to eight years in prison for molesting four girls at two Los Angeles schools.
A Superior Court judge on Tuesday also ordered 40-year-old Steve Thomas Rooney to pay $5,000 in fines and restitution.
Rooney pleaded no contest in August to four counts, including a lewd act on a child under 14.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Prosecutors say two Markham Middle School students were molested between January and March 2008, and two others were students at Foshay Learning Center when the molestions began.
Rooney worked as a teacher and later dean of students at Foshay, and as an assistant principal at Markham.
He was fired by the school district after an investigation.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}His attorney Dmitry Gorin says Rooney is remorseful.