{"id":321817,"date":"2026-08-15T02:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321817\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T02:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:34:11","slug":"teacher-41-arrested-for-hugging-girl-12-lewd-advances-at-brooklyn-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321817\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher, 41, arrested for hugging girl, 12, lewd advances at Brooklyn school"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New York City Department of Education teacher was arrested for hugging a 12-year-old student and asking her if she wanted him to be her \u201cpapi,\u201d court documents show.<\/p>\n

The victim told police she could feel 41-year-old Emil Agaronov\u2019s chest on her breast and his belt buckle on her stomach when she says he hugged her at I.S. 240<\/a> on Nostrand Ave. near Avenue K in Midwood on July 28 around 10 a.m., according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n

The teacher then told the girl he wanted a Latin wife and asked if she would spend the night with him, the complaint reads.<\/p>\n

A DOE spokesperson called the allegations \u201cheinous\u201d and said Agaronov has been reassigned to a post away from students as the investigation continues. The department will move to terminate him if the claims are substantiated, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

\"I.S.I.S. 240 on Nostrand Ave. near Ave. K in Midwood, Brooklyn. (Google)<\/p>\n

Agaronov was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and harassment. He was released without bail after pleading not guilty at his arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court Thursday.<\/p>\n

He made more than $98,000 working as a special education teacher<\/a> for the city last year, according to See Through NY.<\/p>\n

The NYPD released a photo of Agaronov, who lives in Brooklyn in Gravesend, and is asking other potential victims to come forward.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York City Department of Education teacher was arrested for hugging a 12-year-old student and asking her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,121264,9,24,63,14747],"class_list":["post-321817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-emil-agaronov","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-teacher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321817","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=321817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}