A former Goleta school teacher has been sentenced in a Ventura Courtroom to 3 years in prison for molesting a former student. Martin Corral was charged with committing lewd acts upon a child between July of 2005 and July of 2007. The victim was an 8 year old boy who was a student of Corral's while he taught at an elementary school in Oxnard. Corral had developed a trusting relationship with the child's family and had been asked to be the boy's god-father at the time of the abuse. Ventura County District Attorney Catherine Voelker, told KEY News over the phone, she was seeking the maximum sentence of 8 years in prison based on the fact that Corral was an educator and he is obligated to alert authorities if he believes a student is experiencing sexual abuse. Amid arguments from the prosecution, the presiding judge handed down a sentence of only 3 years in prison, a sentence he felt was justified because of the defendants guilty plea he made early on in the case. Prosecutor Catherine Voelker firmly disagreed with the judge's decision and said, "the defendant should serve the maximum sentence of 8 years because the ramifications of the abuse and broken trust outweigh the early resolution of this case."