SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) – An arrest report details alleged actions of a South Florida music teacher who’s behind bars after being accused of crossing the line with a student.
The report states the victim told police 53-year-old Rudolph Raymond Infante, a teacher at Miami Southridge Senior High School, touched her butt three times.
The student told Infante to stop, but he responded that it was “out of love and endearment.” She once again asked him to stop again, but she felt that he wouldn’t listen to her.
Included in the report were many details about the suspect, such as comments and actions that made that student feel uncomfortable. This included touching and kissing.
In one of those instances, the arrest report states, Infante showed the student a tattoo of two hearts that he had and said it represented the two of them.
According to the report, the student told investigators about another time when the two were alone, when Infante had her sit on his lap, rubbed her back, then kissed her chest in between her breasts, twice.
The student told police she was afraid to resist because Infante was bigger than her.
Infante was arrested Friday and now faces four counts of battery and one count of offenses against students by authority figures.
On Monday, the school community reacted to the news.
“I looked at my phone because I saw someone posted it and I was surprised like, ‘Is that the teacher that I had earlier this year?’” said student Michael Heredero.
“I couldn’t say nothing in the moment because that’s my teacher and I’m just like, ‘Damn it’s hard to see that was someone I knew and probably a girl that I talked to like interacted with and never knew they were going through this,” said student and drum major Brian Joseph.
“Why do you have teachers doing that?” said a third student.
Joseph added he wishes something could’ve been done sooner.
“We were reporting him, of things he done, you know? We reported him multiple times to the school. Sent whole paragraphs. Spoke out — we literally sat in the office with the administrators and to see that it took this long is terrible,” he said.
A parent who has a child in the high school said the school should’ve been more transparent.
“If this happened to one of my children or my family member, I would want to know what is going on in the school,” said parent Maya Elias.
The suspect has since bonded out of the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
A 7News crew knocked on his door of his home. He told them to leave and closed the door.
A spokesperson for Miami-Dade County Public Schools told 7News in a statement that employment termination proceedings have begun and that the district will ensure that he won’t be employed by them anytime soon.
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