By Noha El Maraghi

Former L.A. County Deputy District Attorney Robin Sax prosecuted sex offenders for more than 15 years.

Sax spoke to a small audience about her job experiences and her advocacy for children’s rights Friday night at the Hilary J. Boone Center.

One of the cases Sax focused on was of a female 12-year-old foreign exchange student being molested by her English as a Second Language teacher.

The teacher used his method of teaching to molest her for about 18 months. He would teach the girl different English phrases using sexual acts to demonstrate, Sax said.

Sax said the teacher admitted to everything and had videotaped what he did.

Since the case was highly publicized, within 24 hours 14 victims who had been “taught” and violated by the same teacher called into TV stations and told their stories.

Sax said sex crimes cases have to be prioritized, and if the goal is to put the offender in jail and “throw away the key,” then the law could be used to get him or her.

“We should look at what we want to happen to the offender, where we want him to end up at the end of the day,” Sax said.

Sax made the point that parents need to keep an eye on their children because they put a large amount of information about themselves online. She allowed her son to have a facebook account, only if she could monitor his page.

“I absolutely believe in snooping on your kids. There is no 4th amendment right to kids’ privacy,” she said.

Sax said these cases need to be taken seriously and it is vital for parents to believe their children.

She also said it is important to utilize the National Sex Offender Registry, which registers and tracks sex offenders.

“I absolutely believe in the registry, but we need to tightly control who goes there,” she said.

There is a difference between someone who is on the site for things like public urination and someone who is on the site for molesting a child, Sax said.

Sax left the D.A.’s office last July and has written six books about her experiences, including “Predators and Child Molestors: A Sex Crimes D.A. Answers 100 of The Most Asked Questions” and “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Criminal Justice System,” according to the Web site, “About Robin Sax.”