A New York instructor who sexually abused a 16-year-old pupil at a particular wants faculty has been sentenced to 25 years in jail, in accordance with authorities.
Sandy Carazas-Pinez, 36, was slapped with the quarter-century sentence and 5 years of supervised launch by US District Decide John P. Cronan on Friday for attractive a minor to interact in unlawful sexual exercise, US Lawyer for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, announced in a statement.
Between November 2022 and February 2023, Carazas-Pinez, 34, a former New York Metropolis public faculty instructor, led her 16-year-old pupil at a city-funded Yonkers faculty for teenagers with particular must imagine they have been in a romantic relationship, prosecutors mentioned.
She used her cellphone to textual content, name, and video chat with him to rearrange sexual encounters, and compelled him to live-stream “sexually specific conduct” whereas on video calls, authorities added.
“I do know for me it isn't going to be simple, I'll miss your kisses, hugs and the whole lot,” Casarez-Pinez allegedly wrote in a dialogue of whether or not she and the boy ought to “finish it,” in accordance with texts beforehand beneath assessment by legislation enforcement businesses.
The instructor, from Bethel, Connecticut, described the livestreamed sexual encounters to the coed as “presents,” in accordance with prosecutors.
She went as far as to direct the teenager to acquire day passes from his faculty to go away campus and meet her close by to drive and park in places across the Bronx, Yonkers, and Staten Island to have intercourse.
Carazas-Pinez additionally despatched sexually suggestive photos and texts to the boy, then repeatedly instructed the coed to delete them.
“Sexual exploitation by academics offends each New Yorker,” Clayton mentioned in an announcement.
“Sandy Carazas-Pinez betrayed her function and, by specific texts and different means, coerced a 16-year-old right into a sexual relationship,” he mentioned.
“Actions of this kind by anybody, significantly a instructor or different particular person of belief, is not going to be tolerated.”
Carazas-Pinez, a married mom of three, was terminated from Biondi College, run by the nonprofit Rising Floor, in March 2023.
Decide Cronan beforehand tossed Carazas-Pinez behind bars after she violated her bail circumstances after her preliminary arrest.
She was forbidden to have unsupervised contact with any youngster beneath the age of 18, however she later emailed one other former pupil a day after he turned 18 to want him completely satisfied birthday.
Her personal lawyer known as the conduct “troubling” on the time.
