{"id":264929,"date":"2026-05-09T16:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264929\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T16:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:41:09","slug":"miami-dade-teacher-accused-of-sexual-relationship-with-minor-facing-termination-from-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264929\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade teacher accused of sexual relationship with minor facing termination from job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Miami-Dade teacher is facing a trio of charges tied to an alleged sexual relationship with a minor.<\/p>\n<p>Records reviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/miami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CBS News Miam<\/a>i show that 46-year-old Leroy Wright Jr. was arrested by Miami-Dade Schools Police on Friday. Wright is charged with unlawful sexual activity with a specified minor, possessing obscene material depicting a minor, and committing an offense against a student by an authority figure. While a bond of $2,500 was set for the obscene material charge, bond is yet to be set for the other two.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0410062503f.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"0410062503f.jpg \" height=\"775\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Leroy Wright Jr.<\/p>\n<p>                Miami-Dade County Jail<\/p>\n<p>In a statement shared on Saturday, Miami-Dade County Public Schools said Wright was employed at Miami Jackson Senior High School, and that the district has started employment termination proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This type of behavior this individual is accused of will not be tolerated, as it runs contrary to the professional conduct we expect from all employees,&#8221; part of a statement from the district reads.<\/p>\n<p>As of publication, it was not immediately clear if the minor involved was a student at Miami Jackson Senior High.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Miami-Dade teacher is facing a trio of charges tied to an alleged sexual relationship with a minor.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[265,123,125,124,1064,24085],"class_list":["post-264929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-crime","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-miami-dade-county-public-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264929","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=264929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}