Former Mar Vista High aide pleads guilty to sex with student

A former Mar Vista High School campus aide arrested earlier this year on allegations of engaging in sex acts with a 17-year-old male student pleaded guilty this week to sex crime charges.

Lisette Veles Ortega, 32, who was an employee of an outside contractor used by the Imperial Beach school, pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges related to sexual conduct with a minor, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

Ortega was arrested in May. At the time, she was working for Ro Healthcare, which the company’s website states is a medical staffing and home health agency that helps staff nurses at schools, correctional facilities and for private home care.

She is scheduled to be sentenced next month in Chula Vista Superior Court.