{"id":269776,"date":"2026-05-13T18:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269776\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:31:11","slug":"miami-jackson-senior-high-teacher-accused-of-kissing-student-granted-house-arrest-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269776\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Jackson Senior High teacher accused of kissing student granted house arrest \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teacher at Miami Jackson Senior High School <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/miami-jackson-senior-high-school-teacher-charged-with-sexual-conduct-with-minor-records-show\/3807031\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/miami-jackson-senior-high-school-teacher-charged-with-sexual-conduct-with-minor-records-show\/3807031\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">arrested for alleged sexual conduct with a student<\/a> was in court Wednesday where a judge granted him house arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Leroy Wright, 46, was arrested Friday on charges including aggravated sexual conduct with a student by an authority figure, sexual activity with a minor, and obscene material\/depicting a minor.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/teacher-at-miami-jackson-senior-high-kissed-had-relationship-with-student-report-says\/3807477\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/teacher-at-miami-jackson-senior-high-kissed-had-relationship-with-student-report-says\/3807477\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">an arrest report<\/a>, the teen boy told investigators that on at least three occasions, Wright hugged him, kissed him and touched him inappropriately.<\/p>\n<p>One incident happened in Wright&#8217;s classroom and another happened as Wright was driving the student home from school, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Wright said he was the sponsor of the school&#8217;s freshman club and the alleged victim was a member of the club.<\/p>\n<p>Wright has been behind bars since his arrest but on Wednesday, he appeared before a judge who granted him house arrest with a GPS monitor.<\/p>\n<p>Once he&#8217;s released he&#8217;ll be allowed to go to church on Sundays and to visit relatives who his attorney said he takes care of.<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade County Public Schools officials said the district is in the process of firing Wright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teacher at Miami Jackson Senior High School arrested for alleged sexual conduct with a student was in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,373],"class_list":["post-269776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269776","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=269776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}