A Hollywood piano teacher convicted of sexually abusing a 15-year-old California client allegedly fled the country rather than face justice earlier this month, according to a new report.

The 69-year-old maestro John Kaleel allegedly skipped town on Oct. 8, shortly after jurors returned their verdict, according to the Los Angeles Times.

He may have left earlier, with his lawyer telling the paper she hasn’t heard from him since the day before.

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A pianist presses a key with their middle finger in this stock image. Hollywood maestro John Kaleel, an Australian national convicted of child sex abuse, allegedly fled the country rather than face justice at the end of his trial in Los Angeles. (iStock)

Fox News Digital has reached out to Kaleel’s defense attorney, Kate Hardie, for comment.

The male victim in the case told police that Kaleel asked to measure his genitalia when he was 15, Los Angeles prosecutors told the court, according to the paper. Then he said that Kaleel asked him to get naked on a FaceTime call two years later, telling him, that’s “what friends do.”

A couple runs through an airport to catch their flight in this stock image. Hollywood piano teacher John Kaleel is accused of jetting out of the country after his conviction on child sex abuse charges. (iStock)

Prosecutors accused him of using marijuana with the teen and engaging in oral sex with him. He faced up to 10 years in prison when he allegedly fled the country.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department did not immediately respond to a request to comment before business hours Friday.

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Signage at Los Angeles International Airport indicating flight arrivals and departures along Sepulveda Boulevard, pictured on January 6, 2025. (iStock)

Kaleel’s website indicated that his client list includes the children whose parents worked on hit TV series, including “Mad Men,” “Samurai Jack” and “Orange is the New Black,” according to the report. Their testimonials on his website were not visible Friday.

Kaleel, who is originally from Australia, pleaded guilty to the charges but later retracted his plea and appealed after the conviction led to deportation proceedings, according to news.com.au, a major Australian news site.

An Instagram profile in Kaleel’s name states that he studied classical piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in his home country and had been accepted to Juilliard, the elite performing arts school in New York City.

The case went to trial and led to his conviction, but he was free without bail during the latest legal proceeding.

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Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital that during a targeted enforcement stop on Tuesday, 44-year-old Mexican illegal immigrant Carlitos Ricardo Parias “weaponized his vehicle and began ramming the law enforcement vehicle in an attempt to flee.”

“Fearing for the safety of the public and law enforcement,” McLaughlin said, “Our officers followed their training and fired defensive shots.”

Parias was shot in the elbow, and a U.S. Marshals Service officer was hit in the hand by a ricochet bullet. She said that both were stable and were transported to the nearest hospital to undergo non-life-threatening surgery.

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A view near where a U.S. Marshal and an illegal alien were shot Tuesday in Los Angeles.  (KTTV)

Los Angeles local outlet ABC 7 reported that Parias is a well-known TikTok influencer who regularly follows ICE agents and goes by the moniker “Richard LA.” The outlet also reported that crowds gathered outside the hospital to protest the arrest as well as ICE.

According to McLaughlin, officers had previously encountered Parias, but he had escaped arrest. She said that he entered the country illegally at an unknown date and location and that he has a history of driving without a license, failing to prove financial responsibility, vehicle code violations and resisting arrest.

Now, DHS is pursuing criminal charges against Parias for assaulting, resisting or impeding federal law enforcement.

McLaughlin said that “these are the consequences of conduct and rhetoric by sanctuary politicians and activists who urge illegal aliens to resist arrest.”

“We are once again calling on sanctuary politicians, agitators, and the media to turn the temperature down and stop calling for violence and resistance against ICE law enforcement,” said McLaughlin.

She called out several Democrats who she said have held webinars to provide “resources and tips for how to openly defy ICE.” McLaughlin said that Democrats who have emboldened illegals to attempt to evade ICE include Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom.

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A spokesperson for California Gov. Gavin Newsom shot back that it is “the federal government is unnecessarily endangering our law enforcement officers, who, even in this chaos, are trying to do their jobs lawfully and serve their communities.” (Mario Tama)

In response, a spokesperson for Newsom told Fox News Digital that “President Trump and [White House Homeland Security Advisor] Stephen Miller are trying to orchestrate the largest deportation effort in history, disregarding due process and even the safety of U.S. citizens and law enforcement.”

“These aggressive arrests are a PR campaign, using fear and force. They want to manufacture chaos, then blame others,” the spokesperson said, adding, “Trump is forcing the federal government to indiscriminately arrest U.S. citizens through racial profiling, vehicle ramming, and forced entry, then broadcasting these interactions online.”

The spokesperson flipped the script on the Trump administration, saying, “The federal government is unnecessarily endangering our law enforcement officers, who, even in this chaos, are trying to do their jobs lawfully and serve their communities. They are creating fear among hardworking families –our neighbors, colleagues,and friends – who now have a target on their backs because of this administration.”

“Immigration law can be enforced without a message ofterror,” the Newsom spokesperson said.

Fox News Digital also reached out to the offices of Ocasio-Cortez and Bass but did not immediately receive a response.

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Commander of Operation At Large CA, center, marches with federal agents to the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building after U.S. Border Patrol agents staged a show of force outside the Japanese American National Museum, where Gov. Gavin Newsom held a redistricting press conference in Los Angeles, California, on August 14. (Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson also weighed in, telling Fox News Digital that “ICE Officers are facing a 1000% increase in assaults because of unhinged rhetoric from activists and Democrat politicians smearing heroic ICE officers.”

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“Anyone who assaults or otherwise harms law enforcement officers will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law,” said Jackson, adding, “Democrats must stop siding with illegal aliens over American law enforcement.”

Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

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