A former soccer coach at a now-shuttered charter school near Redwood City pleaded no contest to statutory rape and other charges stemming from a case involving two students, the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday.  

Palo Alto resident Anthony Giovanny GutierrezMolina, 31, worked at the now-closed Summit Everest High School in North Fair Oaks as a coach and program manager. The school closed last year.  

Palo Alto resident Anthony GutierrezMolina, 31, worked at the now-closed Summit Everest High School in North Fair Oaks, Calif., as a coach and program manager. GutierrezMolina was arrested on Thursday, March 5, 2026. (San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office via Bay City News)

In March, GutierrezMolina was arrested and subsequently charged with 12 counts of statutory rape and six counts of oral copulation with a person under the age of 18. He pleaded no contest to three counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and two counts of felony oral copulation with a minor. 

According to prosecutors, GutierrezMolina “became very friendly” with a 16-year-old girl who was part of the community engagement program he ran at the school. In March 2023, he brought the girl to his home and they began a sexual relationship that lasted through November 2024. 

The sexual interactions also occurred on school property. The relationship ended only after GutierrezMolina’s wife told him she was pregnant, according to District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe.  

A second girl was drawn into a sexual relationship with GutierrezMolina and they had sex three times at his home, prosecutors said.  

GutierrezMolina is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 8 and is facing up to two years and eight months in state prison, Wagstaffe said. Though he was originally held on $1 million bail, he is currently out of custody on $500,000 bail.  

Katy St. Clair got her start in journalism by working in the classifieds department at the East Bay Express during the height of alt weeklies, then sweet talked her way into becoming staff writer, submissions editor, and music editor. She has been a columnist in the East Bay Express, SF Weekly, and the San Francisco Examiner. Starting in 2015, she begrudgingly scaled the inverted pyramid at dailies such as the Vallejo Times-Herald, The Vacaville Reporter, and the Daily Republic. She has her own independent news site and blog that covers the delightfully dysfunctional town of Vallejo, California, where she also collaborates with the investigative team at Open Vallejo. A passionate advocate for people with developmental disabilities, she serves on both the Board of the Arc of Solano and the Arc of California. She lives in Vallejo.