MIAMI – A now-former teacher at a public highschool in Miami despatched inappropriate messages to 2 feminine students, in line with police, resulting in his arrest on more than one legal fees.
Miami-Dade Schools police arrested Roger Alaniz, 24, of Little Havana, on Thursday. He taught at Miami Senior High School, positioned at 2420 SW First St., additionally within the Little Havana group.
According to an arrest file, one of the students informed police that the inappropriate messages started in October when Alaniz “wrote his personal phone number on a paper she was working on, which she ignored.”
“Alaniz asked numerous times, ‘Have you added me yet?’ and ‘When are you going to text me?’” police wrote. “(The victim) replied, ‘I forgot, I’ll do it later.’”
Police stated Alaniz “approached her with his phone and said, ‘put your number.’ (She) felt pressured and entered her phone number in his phone.”
The file states their dialog was once commonplace in the beginning, however he started texting her inappropriately.
“I think I might have a crush on you,” police say he texted the coed. “Is that weird?”
This made the coed “uncomfortable,” police stated.
“She felt guilty about not reporting it because she could have stopped him from reaching out to other girls,” the file states.
One of the ones different students informed police that Alaniz had added her on Instagram in November, police stated.
According to the file, the conversations had been in the beginning about college, however quickly veered into inappropriate subjects.
Those incorporated “personal problems with friends and boys,” for which he gave recommendation, police stated.
Authorities stated he additionally requested her “how far she sexually engaged with a boy” and “invited her to go out with him to watch a movie and drive her around town.”
After the coed left out his messages, police stated Alaniz informed her that her “grades would be affected.”
The sufferer then “told him she wanted a different teacher,” the file states.
“Alaniz told her she would not be able to get out of his class, and if she did, he would find her,” police stated.
The pupil informed police that she didn’t file the texts quicker as a result of she “feared” Alaniz, in line with the file.
Police stated they spoke with Alaniz for a scheduled interview Wednesday and he waived his Miranda rights; what he allegedly stated subsequent is redacted from the file.
Authorities then arrested him and confiscated his iPhone, police stated.
Alaniz, charged with two counts of offenses in opposition to students via authority figures and kid abuse with no nice physically hurt, was once being held within the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $15,000 bond as of Friday afternoon.
In a observation, a spokesperson for Miami-Dade County Public Schools stated the district was once “profoundly troubled” via the “concerning allegations” made in opposition to Alaniz.
“Upon learning about this suspected behavior, he was immediately reassigned away from the school while Miami-Dade Schools Police conducted their investigation, and his employment with the District was subsequently terminated,” the observation reads partly.
The spokesperson stated the district “goes to great lengths to provide a safe school environment for our students and employees; all new teachers undergo ethics and civil rights compliance/Title IX training as part of their onboarding. This individual will be precluded from seeking future employment with the District.”
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