The San Juan de la Maguana Prosecutor’s Office is investigating a teacher accused of harassing and making sexual advances to a 13-year-old student from the Villa Flores primary school, located in the southern area of that city.
In a document dated Tuesday, November 12, the Unit for Attention to Victims of Gender Violence, Domestic Violence and Sexual Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office issued a restraining order for the minor against mathematics teacher Eduardo Montero Montero, from the aforementioned school.
Meanwhile, the school director, Sarah Elena Sánchez Fernández, said that the educator was suspended from his duties to await the results of the investigations.
However, Judge Pedro Antonio Mateo Ibert, head of the Regional Prosecutor’s Office for Children, Adolescents and Families (NNAF), He reported that the teacher was transferred to another study center with the aim of hiding the case, with the complicity of the Dominican Association of Teachers (ADP).
“Everything that happened is known to the president of the ADP in the educational district area 02-05, where the school is located, since he participated in a meeting to which the girl’s mother and guardian were invited, to try to keep the case covered,” said Judge Mateo Ibert, in a press document.
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He added that “the ADP is aware of all of that teacher’s misdeeds and what they planned to do was transfer him to another educational center, so that he could continue harassing other students.”
The judicial authorities reacted to a complaint of rape against the teacher of the girl’s guardian.
On the 18th of this month, the school principal sent a correspondence to the director of educational district 02-05, José Luis Jiméz Berroa, to inform him that the educator had allegedly “made inappropriate advances” to the student.
“As a center, we are not certain of what happened, nor have we had any complaints about similar situations with said teacher and it should be noted that he has been with us since our beginnings,” said Sánchez Fernández.
He added that “however, given the information from the management team, I made the decision to remove him from the grade and send him home.”
The Ministry of Education yesterday suspended the director, the counselor, the administrative coordinator, and the teachers involved in the alleged sexual abuse of a 13-year-old student. La Syria school, in the Quisqueya municipality, in San Pedro de Macorís.
The measure came after two teachers at that school were accused of sexually raping a 13-year-old student.
