Keep Bailing

Sad news for Fair Oaks Elementary School in Redwood City: the parent association had $5000 stolen by the former president of the group. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Rosendo Cazares Abarca was sentenced to a year in the San Mateo County Jail for stealing $1500 from fundraisers – including one where photos were taken with Santa Claus, the other a garage sale - and misappropriating another $3500 in funds by writing checks to himself and family members.

Since Abarca was not bailed out and waited in jail for his trial, nearly a year, he will likely be released on probation shortly. Apparently at the time of the incidences, Abarca was unemployed and drug addicted and on probation for felony drug possession. (Was he fulfilling his community service requirement? Gotta laugh at something here.)