{"id":164834,"date":"2026-03-16T11:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/164834\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:04:05","slug":"queens-teacher-accused-of-groping-7-special-needs-high-school-students-nypd-sources-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/164834\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens teacher accused of groping 7 special needs high school students: NYPD sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"A male teacher and yellow school buses.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"828\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0fec3183ef25f9c261c6e0a3bb9b5cf8.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A male teacher and yellow school buses.<\/p>\n<p>A perverted high school teacher was arrested for allegedly groping\u00a0seven\u00a0special needs students at a Queens high school\u00a0but was released by a judge, according to\u00a0officials.<\/p>\n<p>Vamshi Guduru allegedly touched the girls \u2013 between 15 and 17 \u2013 on their buttocks and breasts at\u00a0John Bowne High School\u00a0in Kew Gardens Hills,\u00a0officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged abuse happened between Monday and Wednesday, according to a criminal complaint against him.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Vamshi Guduru was arrested at 6:30 a.m. Friday for multiple alleged forcible touching incidents, cops said. dcpi\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"572\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/08f5b06776f86a4725960d23e5ef154d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Vamshi Guduru was arrested at 6:30 a.m. Friday for multiple alleged forcible touching incidents, cops said. dcpi<\/p>\n<p>One of the girls said the 36-year-old teacher \u201ccaressed her right breast without her consent,\u201d according to the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the other girls said he \u201csqueezed\u201d their buttocks without their consent, the complaint reads. Two others said he touched or squeezed their breasts, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Another girl said Guduru stood very close to her and put his hand over her hand. The seventh girl said he touched her lower back.<\/p>\n<p>The incidents were reported to police on Thursday and the 36-year-old was arrested by NYPD\u00a0 Warrant Section detectives at his home on Friday\u00a0morning, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The victims were all special needs students at a Queens high school, police sources said. Christopher Sadowski\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e0561a733b44a6572efdf0a22c789fc7.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The victims were all special needs students at a Queens high school, police sources said. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n<p>Guduru was charged with four counts of forcible touching, and five counts each of endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>He was arraigned in front of Judge\u00a0Sharifa\u00a0Nasser-Cuellar and was freed on supervised release. There are orders of protection against him for the victims.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors asked for bail, according to a Queens DA spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Guduru\u2019s defense attorney, Imran Ansari, said in a statement: \u201cThe allegations remain allegations and we have yet to see the prosecution\u2019s evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His next court date is May 4.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD released his mugshot in hopes that other victims would come forward.Anyone with information is asked to call<a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u00a0Crime Stoppers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">\u00a0Crime Stoppers<\/a>\u00a0at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A male teacher and yellow school buses. A perverted high school teacher was arrested for allegedly groping\u00a0seven\u00a0special needs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[36624,67760,19262,9,24,63,122,124,123,67759],"class_list":["post-164834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-criminal-complaint","tag-high-school-teacher","tag-kew-gardens-hills","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-vamshi-guduru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164834","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=164834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}