Ex-teacher heads to prison for 'secret society' sex assaults

SAN ANTONIO — A former teacher who created a “secret society” in 2009 as a tool to get underage girls to sleep with him was sentenced Thursday to two concurrent 12-year prison terms.

Robert Louis Rosseau, who taught Bible classes to eighth graders at the Christian Academy of San Antonio, reached a plea agreement last month that called for state District Judge Maria Teresa Herr to decide sentences of between 10 and 12 years.

Rosseau, 41, received deferred adjudication probation for two additional counts of sexual assault of a child, a second-degree felony that carries a punishment of up to 20 years in prison.

According to court documents, the “secret society” was revealed when Rosseau attempted to recruit a third girl into the group that consisted of himself and two high school students, both under age 17.

The third girl refused the offer and later got into a physical fight with the other two girls when she tried to tell classmates about the group.

Court documents state that the fight led to one of the girls' expulsion from school, and eventually police got involved.

The girl told police that in a conversation that took place at a Medina Lake vacation home and lasted about an hour, Rosseau “talked to her about the 'society' which was based on Christianity, the occult, magic and Freemasonry,” according to court documents.

Rosseau told her he was a “38th degree mason, and he needed to add a third person into the 'society.'” He alluded to sexual contact being required to build the trust that was needed “for the 'order' to operate.”

In later interviews with police, the other girls told officers they had smoked marijuana and salvia from a pipe as part of the rituals involved with the society and that Rosseau would sometimes read Bible passages while sexually assaulting them.

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