Posted on 03/25/2011 3:23:10 PM PDT by Liz
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. Assistant school principal Jose Martinez who recently resigned from his post was arrested and charged Friday with sexually abusing a 14-year-old student, officials announced Friday. According to authorities, Jose Martinez is accused of having "ongoing courses of manual and oral sex" with the male student between March 2010 and June 2010, inside his middle school office.
Martinez, 37, has been charged with one count of second-degree criminal sexual act, officials announced at a morning press conference. New Rochelle Police Capt. Joseph Schaller told reporters Martinez was arrested Thursday at his home in Brentwood, Long Island. He remains in police custody awaiting arraignment.
Martinez resigned from his position as assistant principal of Jefferson Elementary School on March 11, after holding the post for only five months. Before transferring to Jefferson Elementary, Martinez worked as dean at the Issac E. Young Middle School.
According to officials, it was there where the abuse took place with the child who was a student at the time. Sign up for KTLA 5 Breaking News Email Alerts Police started investigating Martinez after the boy's mother made a complaint where she believed the school administrator was involved in an inappropriate relationship with her son.
On March 23, the mother finally filed a formal complaint with authorities, nearly two weeks after Martinez submitted his resignation to the school district.
According to Jefferson school officials, Martinez cited "personal reasons" for his sudden departure. District officials say they are fully cooperating with authorities in the ongoing investigation.
“(Excepting possible homes where parents are sexually abusing children.)”
This is misleading.
Sexual abuse by biological parents happens but isn't common.
Sexual abuse within “blended” families by step-parents and live-ins is significantly more common.
sitetest
That's my point.
Abuse within intact families is not common. It is very unusual for biological parents to prey on their own children.
The slur is often made against men that most abuse happens within the home, and mostly by men. But it is not men who marry, have children, and maintain an intact family who are often abusers.
sitetest
It is my fault. I replied to the first part of your post without reading the second part, and therefore just repeated your point back to you. Don’t usually make this mistake. Sorry about that.
No problem.
More parents sexually abuse their own children than public school teachers?
I’d like to see stats on that.
Besides, when it’s a comparison for the sake of making other groups which sexually abuse children not look so bad by pointing out that others do it more, that’s vile and disgusting.
Schools won’t have to fork over $$$ because they deal with it properly. The offender is arrested and changed and tried, not covered for, shifted around, and outright lied about.
Too many union ‘educators’ see public schools as their private whore houses ... I wonder how many get away with this stuff and for how many years. I doubt this young man was his ‘first’.
I just saw something about teachers being shifted from school to school. I honestly don’t remember where I saw it. ‘Waiting for Superman’ maybe? I’ll have to go back and check. I also don’t have any statistics about abuse in the schools vs abuse in the home. Do you?
*Mistakes* made??? That they didn't handle it well is the understatement of the year.
The Catholic church is downright complicit in the abuse of all those children for it's deliberate covering up of the abuse. Their actions ( or lack thereof) are reprehensible.
Look, I know Catholics just love to point out that others allegedly abuse at higher rates than Catholic priests are alleged to but that still doesn't make it right on the part of the priests and it certainly by no means excuses the churches response to the abuse.
One statistic I'd love to see is not just the number who abuse, but the number who are abused per abuser. There are horror stories of Catholic priests who abused many kids per.
The Catholic church takes the high moral ground. They are more responsible when something like this happens and more accountable.
Making others look worse so someone can say, *Well, see. Others do it even more so the Catholic priests aren't so bad after all* is a lie from the pit. It is worse if Catholic priests do it because they're claiming to be priests to God and representatives of Christ on earth. This is representing Christ to those abused?
The spiritual damage done is the worst kind because it taints the child's view of God and Christ FOREVER.
Stepdads can legitimately called parents, but boyfriends???
Get a grip.
That has agenda written all over it by including them to make it look like abuse happens more by parents than anyone else.
No, I don’t but I’m not the one who made the charge so it’s not my responsibility to back it up.
Okay, let me rephrase it in stronger words to suit your agenda. The Catholic Church’s role in covering up the abuse is the worst thing in the world to ever happen and there is absolutely nothing they can do to make it up to the victims. Every single priest in the Church is guilty by association and the Church should be forced to sell every single thing it owns in every country in the world and give it to anyone that claims to have been abused. Then the Church should be shut down forever because there is absolutely no good coming from it anymore. There can never be any forgiveness to the Catholic Church.
There. Is that better? Good grief! This is not an article about priests. Why can we not discuss all areas where abuse occurs and come up with ways to protect all children from all areas without being accused of trying to pass the blame? Why do these threads all boil down to ‘they are all guilty but some are more guilty than others’.
So neither one of us know for sure what the accurate stats are. I guess we should both reserve judgement then.
And to top it off, a 63-year-old singer (goes by "Elton John") and his legitimized-by-civil-service male "partner" are given an infant boy (surrogate mother) and regaled for doing so. One of the baby's "godmothers" is an IT that goes by "Lady Gaga". There is more shameless debauchery and blasphemy in today's society because the technological advances spread the sewer culture far and wide.
I guess this means we should just forget about all the priests that have raped kids.. after all schools do it more , and homes do it more
Seems to me that would be expected and 100% of kids are in schools and homes and probably only 15% or so are in Catholic churches
Becoming teachers and administrators and working in schools seems like it would be a natural fit for pedophiles and predators. Plus, they have their unions to protect them.
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