{"id":228636,"date":"2026-04-12T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228636\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:24:08","slug":"miami-southridge-senior-high-school-teacher-accused-of-battery-mdcps-responds-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228636\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Southridge Senior High School teacher accused of battery; MDCPS responds &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A teacher at Mother of Miami Southridge Senior High School is spending time behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>53-year-old Rudolph Infante has been charged with four counts of battery and one felony charge of offenses against students by an authority figure.<\/p>\n<p>Details on the charges are currently unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade County Public Schools released a statement expressing their disappointment following Infante\u2019s arrest, reading in part:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe district has initiated employment termination proceedings and will ensure the individual is precluded from seeking future employment with Miami-Dade County Public Schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Infante is currently behind bars, and school police have not yet released any further information.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A teacher at Mother of Miami Southridge Senior High School is spending time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-228636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}