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Why an ESL teacher might have helped 3 O.C. inmates escape
Los Angeles Times ^ | 01/29/2016 | Matt Hamilton, James Queally and Richard Winton•

Posted on 01/29/2016 7:47:17 AM PST by BenLurkin

The teacher, Nooshafarin Ravaghi, had traveled the world, spoke three languages and wrote a collection of children's books about a young girl's discovery of her Persian heritage, according to her website.

The student, Hossein Nayeri, had fled the United States twice to escape prosecution and was awaiting trial in a brutal torture plot that left a man burned, bleeding and near death in the Mojave Desert.

Ravaghi had been teaching in the jails since fall 2014 and passed a Sheriff's Department background check, according to a statement released by the Rancho Santiago Community College District. She had been teaching at Men's Central Jail for at least six months, Hallock said.

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Ravaghi grew up in Tehran and spent much of her youth traveling around the world with her father, according to her personal website. She moved to California in 1997 after studying French literature in Tehran and Paris.

She earned her graduate degree in education from Cal State Fullerton, the website said, and has taught English, Farsi and French to adults and children in Orange County. She also wrote an eponymous series of "multicultural books" for children, titled "The Noosha Collection." The book series aimed to foster tolerance, she wrote on the website.

A former colleague of Ravaghi, who asked not to be identified, described her as a hardworking tutor who rarely interacted with her students outside of the classroom.

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The colleague, who hadn't spoken to Ravaghi in about four years, also said the teacher was "kind of a loner."

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: esl; immigration; nooshafarin; ravaghi; tehran

1 posted on 01/29/2016 7:47:17 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

So did this teacher dig someone out or what?


2 posted on 01/29/2016 7:49:36 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

The sad thing is that she’ll have to get at least two or three years in prison....which will come out of the tax-payer pocket.

I’d rather see some kind of house-arrest on this gal....forcing her to fill sand-bags for a year for the county than waste real jail space.


3 posted on 01/29/2016 7:52:12 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

Won’t the President instead just award her some of the 150 bil!ion earmarked for Persians?


4 posted on 01/29/2016 7:53:43 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

It’s in the article. “Ravaghi directly contributed to the escape of the three inmates and provided critical planning tools that aided in their preparation for the escape,” For example she provided Google map satellite images that showed the roof of the jail.


5 posted on 01/29/2016 7:54:14 AM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free

Thanks, I had not read that yet. Hope they accidentally drop her out of a helicopter or something.


6 posted on 01/29/2016 7:55:59 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

Deport her to Iran.


7 posted on 01/29/2016 8:07:18 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: BenLurkin

Chalk this up as another invader with a rubber stamped visa.


8 posted on 01/29/2016 8:09:50 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free
Similar to the Clinton Correctional Facility escape in Upstate NY:

Joyce Mitchell, who aided prison break, going to prison herself...

No females need to be in a maximum security male prison...period!

9 posted on 01/29/2016 8:11:28 AM PST by Dubh_Ghlase
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To: A CA Guy

I thought that was ‘take them to 600 feet and open the door and allow them to step outside.’


10 posted on 01/29/2016 8:14:25 AM PST by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: BenLurkin; bgill; All

Has anyone read the article and found the answer to

WHY she might have helped???

Read the article and missed the WHY part.


11 posted on 01/29/2016 8:14:38 AM PST by pilgrim
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To: pepsionice
I’d rather see some kind of house-arrest on this gal..

I'd rather see her against a wall wit a blindfold and last cigarette.

12 posted on 01/29/2016 8:17:29 AM PST by pgkdan (Trump 2016 ! And then put Ted Cruz on the USSC!)
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To: pilgrim

I read the article and can not understand how she got the jackhammer, sawsall and actelene torch past the guards.

What she hide it her study material- perhaps she hollowed out a book.

According to the article, they had to saw bars to get out of cells, then break thru sewer pipe of concrete reinforced with rebar.

I am not saying she did not aid in their escape- but where did they get the tools to make their escape


13 posted on 01/29/2016 8:22:00 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: pilgrim

No, but being in luuuuuve is usually the reason why.


14 posted on 01/29/2016 8:24:42 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill

She should be locked up for many years.


15 posted on 01/29/2016 8:24:59 AM PST by Jane Austen (Marco Rubio is the White Obama and beholden to special interests.)
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To: pilgrim

She’s a muslim, the guy she helped was a muslim, where is the mystery?


16 posted on 01/29/2016 8:50:41 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: bgill; Boogieman; Nailbiter

Thanks for the enlightenment.

Thought the reporter had a definitive answer from the headline. That was what

muslim in love with a muslim looking for love.

Thanks.


17 posted on 01/29/2016 9:24:56 AM PST by pilgrim
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