March 19, 2010 Jersey City teacher masturbates in front of student www.privateofficer.com
“If this occurred on school premises, it certainly is a very disturbing act,” Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said of the allegation against Peter Riquelme, 41, of Brooklyn.
Riquelme was summoned to the Jersey Board of Education’s central office yesterday and arrested on the charges of aggravated criminal sexual contact, child abuse, endangering the welfare of a child and official misconduct, DeFazio said.
“The allegation is that this happened in a bathroom that required a key to open and the teacher opened it for the student to use and then followed him in and engaged in the sexual act on himself in the presence of the juvenile,” DeFazio said.
The boy left the bathroom and shortly afterward told one of his teachers about the incident, DeFazio said.
Yesterday morning, a judge signed a warrant for Riquelme’s arrest after the investigation by Jersey City police, the state Division of Youth and Family Services and the Special Victim’s Unit of the prosecutor’s office, DeFazio said.
At a hearing in Superior Court yesterday afternoon Riquelme’s bail was set at $75,000 cash or bond. The judge also barred him from unsupervised contact with children other than his own. It’s not clear if he posted bail.
School officials said Riquelme will report to Central Office at Claremont and West Side avenues pending the outcome of the investigation.
He was hired in March 2007, has tenure and is paid $51,000 a year, said district spokeswoman Paula Christen.
Riquelme is not charged with touching the boy, but rather with having sexual contact with himself in minor’s presence. It’s not clear if the victim was a special education student.
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