{"id":288985,"date":"2026-05-29T15:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288985\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:29:30","slug":"broward-teacher-arrested-accused-of-offense-against-student-by-authority-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288985\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward teacher arrested, accused of \u2018offense against student by authority figure\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 29, 2026 at 9:13 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0May 29, 2026 at 10:27 AM<\/p>\n<p>A Broward County public school teacher was arrested Thursday and booked into the Broward County Main Jail, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A Broward County public school teacher was arrested Thursday and booked into the Broward County Main Jail, records show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/05\/29\/arrestan-a-maestro-de-broward-acusado-de-delito-contra-estudiante-por-figura-de-autoridad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/05\/29\/arrestan-a-maestro-de-broward-acusado-de-delito-contra-estudiante-por-figura-de-autoridad\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Online jail records show Basil Billings, 63, faces charges of offense against student by authority figure and lewd and lascivious touching of certain minors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Billings is listed on the Broward County Public School District\u2019s website as a reading teacher at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say the victim is a 16 or 17-year-old student.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News has reached out to Broward County Public Schools to see if any action has been taken against Billings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">We have also requested his arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Billings appeared in court Friday morning where a judge set his bond at $35,000 and ordered that he not have any contact with the victim or any minors and to stay away from all schools. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Watch Local 10 News or refresh this page for updates. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jackie Pascale\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/7459247a-7a40-428f-b513-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jackie Pascale<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Jackie Pascale joined the Local 10 News team in July 2025 as a reporter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 29, 2026 at 9:13 AM Updated:\u00a0May 29, 2026 at 10:27 AM A Broward County public school teacher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-288985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288985","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=288985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}