{"id":163602,"date":"2026-03-15T00:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/163602\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T00:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:10:08","slug":"queens-h-s-teacher-groped-at-least-7-female-students-including-on-breasts-buttocks-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/163602\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens H.S. teacher groped at least 7 female students, including on breasts, buttocks: officials"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Queens teacher was granted supervised release after his arraignment at Queens Criminal Court Saturday on charges of groping seven female high school<\/a> students between the ages of 15 and 17.<\/p>\n

The alleged sexual abuse started Monday at John Bowne High School<\/a> on Main St. and Reeves Ave. in Kew Gardens, when Vamshi Guduru, 36, is accused of molesting six girls by groping them without their consent on various parts of their bodies, including squeezing the breasts of two girls, squeezing two other girls\u2019 buttocks, touching another\u2019s lower back, and putting his hand over a girl\u2019s hand. The incidents occurred roughly between 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n

The last reported incident occurred Wednesday around 8:30 a.m., when Guduru allegedly, without a student\u2019s consent, put his hand over her hand, then touched her cheek, leaned in and squeezed her left breast, per the complaint.<\/p>\n

The victims, five of whom are 15 years old, told police the abuse occurred during school in the second week of March.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have no comment at this early stage of the case,\u201d Guduru\u2019s lawyer, Imran H. Ansari, told the Daily News. \u201cThe allegations remain allegations and we have yet to see the prosecution\u2019s evidence,\u201d<\/p>\n

Gurduru was arrested Friday by the NYPD Queens Adult Sex Crimes Squad<\/a> and charged with four counts of forcible touching, five counts of endangering the welfare of a child and five counts of sexual abuse, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n

A Department of Education spokeswoman confirmed that Guduru has been reassigned away from students in light of the accusations against him. If the allegations are proven true, Guduru will be terminated from the Education Department, the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe safety and well-being of our students is our top priority. The alleged behavior is deeply disturbing and completely unacceptable,\u201d DOE spokeswoman Isla Gething said in a statement. \u201cAdditional support will be provided to the school community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NYPD is encouraging any more victims who may have been sexually abused by the suspect to come forward. Anyone with information about the incidents is asked to call Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All tips will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Queens teacher was granted supervised release after his arraignment at Queens Criminal Court Saturday on charges of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-163602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}