A popular teacher at Hialeah High School already in jail for allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with a student may have other victims.
According to a search warrant obtained by NBC6, Misael Gonzalez has at least two other victims going as far back as 2009.
The search warrant paints a picture of a teacher who would prey on underage girls for nearly two decades. His alleged behavior follows a repeated and deliberate pattern.
Gonzalez, an English teacher at Hialeah High School, ended his 24-year career there after he was arrested in May. The 55-year-old was accused of having sexual relations with one of his students, who is a 15-year-old sophomore. He faces a long list of charges and is being held in jail pending trial.
Miami-Dade Corrections
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Booking photo of Misael Gonzalez
According to police, the relationship started with conversations about issues the student was having with her father. That escalated into something romantic with Gonzalez allegedly touching the teen inappropriately. That then evolved into a sexual relationship.
Current and former students reacted when the news originally broke.
“I had him my sophomore year,” said one student, “and that was like his thing he always had girls in the classroom. They were all friendly.”
And according to a search warrant obtained by NBC6, those students may be right. Investigators claim sexually inappropriate behavior with at least three other students, going as far back as 2009.
A former student said that when she attended the school, Gonzalez was having sex with a juvenile student between 2008 and 2009. She also reported that as a senior class project, Gonzalez “had female students put on bikini bathing suits and write “HAMLET” across their bodies, take a photograph of their bodies and send it to him for a passing grade.”
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Gonzalez is also accused of kissing a girl in a car in the school parking lot. The search warrant goes on to say he would engage in sexual acts, send or trade explicit photos, and expose himself.
The warrant says Gonzalez, “tried to make his behavior with juvenile students seem normal by revealing other sexual encounters he had with students in the past.”
Gonzalez also allegedly made one of his students, who was wearing a white tank top shirt with a mini skirt, sit in the front row of the room and look up her skirt.
The warrant says Gonzalez would also take students to his home and have sex with them.
It’s important to note that as of this publication, no additional charges have been filed yet related to apparent victims from the past.