BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – The teen girl at the center of a case involving a former Arvin High School teacher accused of unlawful sex with a minor says she wants no part of the trial.

The then-17-year-old victim in the statutory rape case said she will refuse to testify in her former teacher’s seven-felony-count trial, and if she is so compelled anyway, she will take the fifth.

The victim, whose name we are withholding, says she is equally at fault in the case of Michael Joseph Parra – a 44-year-old teacher during the period in question in 2023. She was several months shy of her 18th birthday at the time of the alleged sexual encounters, which she characterized in a February 2025 letter to the prosecutor, Richard Choi, as a consensual romantic relationship.

"I am letting you know that

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