Utah charter school teacher facing 30 felonies after prosecutors say he raped two students

Investigators are seeking an arrest warrant and say the suspect has left the U.S.

A 39-year-old Utah charter school teacher has been charged 30 felony counts after prosecutors say he sexually assaulted two female students multiple times over several months, both at the Eagle Mountain school where he taught and outside of it.

Ricardo Prins worked at Rockwell Charter School, a tuition-free, public charter school that enrolls children in seventh through 12th grade. He allegedly “used his position to influence his victims,” the Utah County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Tuesday.

Prins is identified as a math teacher in a March 2024 agenda for a meeting of the charter school’s board. Mention of him has seemingly been scraped from the school website, but he was once listed on the school’s support staff directory page, archived search results indicate.

Fourth District prosecutors charged Prins, who is identified in court documents as Ricardo Margalho Prins, on Monday with 15 counts of forcible sodomy, ten counts of rape and a single count of object rape — all first-degree felonies.

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