Crime & Safety

Trial Starts Monday for Former Belmont School Custodian

Andre Edwards, who retired from the Belmont-Redwood Shores School District in 2011, is charged with two counts of committing lewd or lascivious acts on a child under 14.

The jury trial for former Ralston Middle School custodian Andre Edwards, 53, who is accused of inappropriately touching a female student on two separate occasions, is scheduled to begin Monday in San Mateo Superior Court.

The April 15 start date is the fourth setting of the jury trial; Criminal Presiding Judge Jonathan Karesh granted a defense motion requesting a continuance in February, and reset the date to April 15.

The former middle school custodian is charged with two counts of committing lewd or lascivious acts on a child under 14.

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