Social employee, 29, ‘sexually assaulted 12-year-old’ and requested him to be her boyfriend
Chloe Rose Castro, 29, was sentenced to 20 years probation after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a sixth-grade student and must also register as a sex offender for life
Chloe Rose Castro sporting pigtails in her mugshot(Image: Arvada Police Department)
A married school social worker has avoided a prison sentence after admitting to sexually assaulting an underage pupil. Chloe Rose Castro, 29, was handed a sentence of 20 years to life on Sex Offender Intensive Supervision Probation (ISP) on 2 April, following a sexual relationship with a boy in the sixth grade.
Sixth-graders are typically aged between 11 and 12. Castro, from Lakewood, Colorado, will also spend three years in community corrections prior to probation, and is required to register as a sex offender for life.
The 29-year-old, who was pictured in her mugshot sporting pigtails, will pay more than $14,000 to the victim in compensation. The former social worker was arrested after the boy’s parents contacted Arvada Police Department on 29 October 2024.
They provided evidence showing Castro, a former Jeffco Public Schools District employee, had engaged in an inappropriate relationship with their child, whose precise age has not been disclosed.
Court documents reviewed by 9News revealed the child’s parents uncovered inappropriate Instagram messages between their son and Castro.
The married woman encountered the unnamed pupil at the end of his sixth grade year and shortly afterwards asked him to be her boyfriend, the child stated, according to the affidavit.
When the boy’s parents attempted to confiscate his phone, they said their child signed out of all his accounts and altered the passwords, according to the affidavit.
The child’s father informed police he spotted messages from a ‘Chloe Castro’, along with numerous exchanges with a ‘Jeremy’, the outlet reported.
During questioning, the juvenile confirmed he had stored Castro’s number under the name ‘Jeremy’, and that they first met when he was completing sixth grade.
The pupil admitted Castro asked him to be her boyfriend, and that they had arranged to relocate to New Mexico together, according to the affidavit.
He also disclosed that Castro is married, but she and her husband have an arrangement that she wishes to have two partners.
The filing revealed that the court had received dozens of letters from an incensed community demanding the harshest sentence for the shamed social worker. “There is no sentence that I could ask for which will give the community their trust back in Jefferson County Public Schools,” the prosecutor declared in court.
