Former Peninsula Teacher Ordered to Stand Trial in Alleged Sex Case

A former dance instructor at was ordered Thursday to stand trial on six felony sex charges involving a teenage female student.

Anthony Angellano, 36, of Wilmington, is charged with five counts of oral copulation with a minor and one count of digital penetration with a minor.

Previously:

The criminal complaint alleges the crimes were between Aug. 1, 2006, and June 30, 2007.

In August of last year, a woman told authorities she had a sexual relationship with Angellano while she was a student at Peninsula High School. The woman alleged the relationship occurred during 2006-07 when she was 16 or 17 years old, Los Angeles police Capt. William Hayes said in a previous interview.

This information led detectives to a woman believed to be a second victim, who alleged to having a sexual relationship with Angellano more than a decade ago when she was about 16 years old. No charges were filed in that case because the statute of limitations had passed.

Angellano was arrested last November and is free on $100,000 bail.

He was a former choreo coach for Peninsula High School.

"He's not working there anymore," Defense Attorney Harland Braun said of Angellano's teaching job at the Rolling Hills Estates high school. "They let him go. He had no contract."

Angellano is due back Feb. 9 in Long Beach Superior Court for arraignment.

—City News Service contributed to this report.