A former administrator at Westminster’s Mountain Range High School was sentenced to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to attempted child sex assault and child abuse, court records show.
Tate Drane, 28, was arrested in October 2024 after Westminster police say he sent explicit photos of himself to an underage student over Snapchat.
He was the dean of students at Mountain Range and had worked in Adams 12 Five Star Schools since 2018.
Drane pleaded guilty to the two felonies in July. Charges of internet sexual exploitation of a child, child sexual assault by one in a position of trust and child sex assault were dismissed by the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.
Drane was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 10 years of intensive supervised probation by District Court Judge Arturo Hernandez on Sept. 24.
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