By Akile Simon
April 30, 2011 – trinidadexpress.com
PUPILS at an all-girls prestige high school busted a biology teacher who took up duties last week, revealing that he was convicted in the United States a few years ago, on charges of sexually assaulting five of his female pupils.
The sex offender managed to slip through the cracks and landed himself a temporary job at the prestige school after a female biology teacher went on maternity leave.
He was hired for a three-month period after he was interviewed and the school’s management was very impressed with his credentials.
The school teacher, who is 32, but was 25 when the offences were committed, according to the New York Times, was convicted and sent to jail for four years after he pleaded guilty on charges of sexually assaulting five pupils of the Cathedral High School, Manhattan, between 2005 and 2007.
The teacher, who was deported back to Trinidad after serving his sentence in a Manhattan jail, was busted by a Form One pupil at the prestige school who decided to Google his name through the internet. To her amazement, several stories, including images of her school teacher, popped-up, indicating that he was convicted of crimes against female pupils in the US.
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FLASHBACK:
Trini teacher accused of harassing rape victims
Supreme Court Justice has increased his bail from US$540,000 to US$750,000
A TRINIDADIAN teacher in New York who is accused of sexually molesting five students has been harassing his victims and enlisting other students to help him, US prosecutors have claimed.
Award-winning teacher in sex assault rap
A Manhattan biology teacher – who was honored for being an “outstanding teacher” at an all-girls’ Catholic school – was charged yesterday with sexually assaulting two underage students. Richard Ali, 27, who teaches at Cathedral High School in Manhattan, allegedly had sex with one girl in his home and car, and molesting another girl at a Queens movie theater.
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There is an old saying that goes”All that glitters is not gold”, and that old saying certainly re-inforces the theory….this individual is a Bona-Fide pedophile, and his actions show that he has no intention to end his horrible,predatory and destructive behavior.There is possibly no doubt that he is a nice looking, charming and personable individual, the types that immature young ladies are drawn to,and in the powerful position of Teacher/Educator/Mentor to these immature young minds,he is to say the least in a very powerful position to destroy these young lives…there are across the globe many young people both male and female who have fallen prey to predators like this so-called teacher,and as they have grown up become souls lost to drug addiction,prostitution,alcoholism and other disease-ridden,high-risk, lifestyles,not to mention the high degree of emotional scarring and pain that they have to live with on a day to day basis, that sometimes do lead up to suicides, or re-cycling the same type of behaviors that they have experienced ….Kudos to the young lady that was pro-active enough to weed out this predator….If this is not evidence that Trinidad needs a Sex Offender registry that mandates SEVERE penalties if not adhered to then I couldn’t tell you otherwise…….WAKE UP TRINIDAD…THERE ARE PREDATORS AT YOUR DOORS…..
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Next thing you know, he will buy some white cotton, get some safron and sendoor, and garb himself as a sahdu, sacred thread and all. He will set up an ashram somewhere in the countryside, away from prying eyes, and young girls will flock to him for spiritual healing. Some would be asked to massage his legs as he gets older. The number of people who have done this, in TnT and USA, originating from India is legion( exagerrating here, really about ten) two pundits have been convicted in New York, one in San Antonio. These are scam artists who use the guise of holy men to get gullible young women close to them. Then later, the girl and her mother are too ashamed to admit how gullible they are.
Some time ago, there was some talk by Panday and Co about putting a mark on the homes of “Criminal Deportees” That stupidness died the natural death, as it should have, but a man like this should be branded on the face, if his ear was cropped,like a bad dog, he could grow long hair to cover it. The first child he molests, the courts of TnT should let that child’s parent brand him on the face.
This would probably be no more traumatic that a boy of fifteen having to light the funeral pyre on his mother’s face. (One told me about it, he was so traumatized). Where ever he lives, especially if he lives in Central, the police should cruise past his house as a matter of routine. I the USA, he would be forbidden by law, to live anywhere near a school or playground, and he could not coach any sport, far less teach.
We are too careless with our children.Did the school that hired then fired him even make a formal report to the police that he had tried to get close to young girls by becoming a teacher, or did they just send him home? Where is he at this time, and whose twelve yearold is he trying to seduce? This lack of civic responsibility is a facet of the society that deeply disturbs me.