{"id":259696,"date":"2026-05-05T20:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259696\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:35:14","slug":"south-florida-christian-school-teacher-accused-of-taping-students-mouth-shut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259696\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida Christian school teacher accused of taping students mouth shut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOMESTEAD, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A South Florida Christian School teacher is behind bars after he allegedly taped a 13-year-old boy&#8217;s mouth shut.<\/p>\n<p>Homestead Police responded to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fumcs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">First United Methodist Christian School<\/a> on Northcombe Avenue in Homestead  after receiving reports from the 13-year-old student\u2019s parents, who alleged Alvarez taped their child\u2019s mouth shut during a disagreement.<\/p>\n<p>After an investigation, police arrested Alvarez and booked him on counts of simple battery.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/georgia-man-accused-of-torching-florida-buddhist-temple-damaging-sacred-relics-arson-florida-buddhist-temple-georgia-man-accused-singhasouk-danny-phanouvong-wat-navaram-buddhist-temple-sanford-florida-temple-fire-religious-artifacts-damaged-monk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Georgia man accused of torching Florida Buddhist temple, damaging sacred relics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alvarez arrived at the jail in West Miami-Dade on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Some parents at the school say they were stunned by the allegations, describing Alvarez as a well-liked teacher who had been with the school for years.<\/p>\n<p>Yanely Webb, a parent, told <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/homestead-bible-teacher-charged-with-simple-battery-accused-of-taping-13-year-old-students-mouth-shut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WSVN<\/a> she has had children enrolled at the school for nearly a decade and had never experienced issues before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had my kids here for 8, going on to 9 years. My son graduated from middle school, and it\u2019s been a fantastic school. Never had any problems,\u201d Webb said.<\/p>\n<p>Webb, who also works in education, said she was shaken by the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was truly shocked. I\u2019m a professor. I\u2019m a teacher myself, and it\u2019s heartbreaking. It\u2019s horrible what happened. I do not know that person, but I can attest that it has been nothing but wonderful here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The school has reportedly not yet publicly commented on the arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOMESTEAD, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A South Florida Christian School teacher is behind bars after he allegedly taped a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-259696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259696","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=259696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}