La Puente

In a statement read this past weekend at Our Lady of Perpetual Help and at St. Louis of France in La Puente — where Arriaga had served before being ordained — the Archdiocese informed parishioners that the priest had “been removed from ministry as a result of a recent report of alleged sexual misconduct involving a minor...”

Prosecutors said Pilar, once a fifth-grade teacher with the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District in the San Gabriel Valley, downloaded more than 400 videos at his Victorville home that showed children engaging in sexual conduct.

But lowriders were never far away while she was growing up in La Puente.

In 2023, the state agency began its investigation into Leaps and Bounds, a private preschool and elementary school with locations in Escondido, La Puente and Fontana.

Steven Pilar, who taught at an elementary school in La Puente, was charged with two counts of receiving child pornography and two counts of possessing it.