A dance instructor from Anaheim, Mark Anthony Chavarria, has been charged with assaulting six girls aged between 12 and 14, who were former students at his dance studio.
Chavarria, who has taught at several dance studios in Southern California and Arizona, was arrested after the girls came forward to report multiple sexual assaults.
He has been charged with 15 counts of lewd or lascivious acts on a child younger than 14, two counts of oral copulation of an underage victim, and a count of sexual penetration by foreign object of an underage victim, all felonies. Chavarria is being held on $5 million bail and police have called for any other victims to come forward.
