Contra Costa County prosecutors indicted Sofia Ann-Buitron Drotts on seven felony charges after accusing her of having a sexual relationship with John Doe, a teenage client under her care. She is 26 and from San Francisco.
The indictment was filed in Contra Costa County Superior Court and includes two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse, two counts of oral copulation of a minor under 18 years old, one count of sexual penetration by a foreign object, two counts of transmitting harmful material to a minor, and one count of possession of child or youth pornography.
John Doe and April 1
Prosecutors said the alleged sexual affair began on April 1 and continued until July 14. John Doe is the minor whose identity is being withheld.
Sofia Drotts had worked as a behavioral health clinician at the John Davis Juvenile Detention Center in Martinez, where the boy was assigned to her as a client.
Concord police and Probation Department
Detectives with Concord police received information about the alleged relationship from a supervisor of the Probation Department in the county. Drotts was arrested on July 14 after an investigation, then referred to the district attorney's office for filing charges about a week later.
The filing moves the case into Superior Court, where her arraignment date will be set. The indictment lays out the charge structure prosecutors will have to support, but the record provided does not describe the evidence behind each count.
Contra Costa County Superior Court
For John Doe, the case centers on a client relationship that prosecutors say crossed into criminal conduct while he was still a minor. For Drotts, the immediate question is how the seven-count indictment will be handled once the arraignment date is set in Contra Costa County Superior Court.
