California therapist charged with felonies for grooming teen

A former behavioral health clinician in Northern California has been charged with multiple felonies for allegedly grooming and sexually abusing a teenage boy who had been assigned to her as a therapy client while he was in juvenile detention. Sofia Ann-Buitron Drotts, 26, of San Francisco, was arrested on July 14 following an investigation by Concord police, who acted on a tip from a supervisor in the county probation department.

The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office filed a seven-count criminal complaint on July -28, 2026, which includes charges of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, oral copulation of a person under 18, sexual penetration by a foreign object, sending harmful matter to a minor, and possession of child sexual abuse imagery. Prosecutors allege that Drotts, who worked as a temporary clinician at the John A. Davis Juvenile Detention Center in Martinez, began grooming the boy when he was 14 or 15 years old and she was his assigned therapist. They further allege that a sexual relationship occurred after the boy’s release from custody, spanning from April 1 to July 14 of this year, while he remained a minor under probation supervision.