A St. Tammany Parish grand jury on Thursday indicted two people, a former Abney Elementary School janitor accused of raping four 8- to 12-year-old students and an illegal immigrant accused of killing his passenger during a late night wreck last April.

Dino Jay Schwertz, 41, 323 Robin Lane, Slidell, was indicted on three counts of aggravated rape and one count of molestation of a juvenile for the fall 2008 attacks on the boys in the elementary school’s bathroom, Rick Wood, spokesman for District Attorney Walter Reed said.

Under Louisiana law, aggravated rape is considered a capital crime when the victims are under 13, but it’s unclear whether prosecutors will seek the death penalty, Wood said. Slidell police and school officials revealed the Schwertz case March 10 after a boy who was a victim of a bully told counselors about the alleged sexual abuse by Schwertz.

He is accused of raping two boys on three different occasions while school was in session.

Schwertz worked as a part-time custodian at Abney Elementary from July to January and passed all background checks before he was hired, school officials said at the time.

Meanwhile, Javier Gachuzo, 22, faces between five and 30 years for the April 6 accident that occurred eastbound on Louisiana Highway 40 in which Javier Velazquez Gachuzo, 19, was killed. Though each have the same last name, neither are thought to be related.

Gachuzo, who authorities believe was driving drunk, was indicted on vehicular homicide charges after he fell asleep while driving a 1991 Dodge Avenger east of Barker Corner about 5:27 p.m. Police at the time said Gachuzo failed to negotiate a left turn, veered into a ditch and slammed into a sloped driveway. The impact hurled the car airborne 40 feet, where it struck two tree limbs before soaring another 70 feet.

It landed on its front end and flipped until it came to a final rest upside down facing west. Javier Velazquez Gachuzo, the fatality victim, was tossed from the vehicle. He was not wearing a seatbelt.

Also during Thursday’s deliberations, the grand jury refused to indict Maya Cook, 24, who stabbed her father during an argument in March.

Cook, who lashed her 51-year-old father in the leg, causing him to bleed to death, was acting in self-defense, Sheriff’s Office investigators said at the time. She was not arrested at the time of the death.

On Thursday, Cook was finally cleared of all criminal wrongdoing when the grand jury agreed she stabbed the Covington man in self-defense.

“We still had to review the case because someone died,” Wood said. “It was just something that officially had to go the grand jury.”