Culver City teacher arrested on sexual assault charges

By Tre'vell Anderson
Los Angeles Times
October 22, 2014

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-culver-teacher-arrested-20141022-story.html

Elizabeth Brewer has been arrested on suspicion of felony child sexual assault. The victim was allegedly one of her students at Notre Dame Academy in Culver City.

A former teacher at a Los Angeles all-girls school was arrested Wednesday and accused of sexually assaulting one of her students between 2005 and 2007.

Elizabeth “Beth” Brewer, 39, has been charged with several felony charges by the Los Angeles District Attorney, according to a Culver City Police Department press release.

Brewer was a teacher at the private, Catholic high school Notre Dame Academy. The alleged victim is believed to have been one of Brewer’s students while she taught there.

The teacher left in 2006 after six years of service for unknown reasons, according to a source with knwoledge of the case who did not want to be identified.  

After working at the high school, Brewer got a job as a course instructor and research analyst at UCLA before joining the Loyola Marymount University School of Education as adjunct faculty in 2007.

According to the source, Brewer was fired by Loyola in 2013 after complaints were made about her past relationships with students.

Brewer is a resident of Culver City with her domestic partner.