{"id":322628,"date":"2026-08-16T17:58:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322628\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T17:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:58:37","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-court-documents-reveal-brooklyn-teacher-told-12-year-old-student-he-wanted-to-be-her-papi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322628\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Court Documents Reveal Brooklyn Teacher Told 12 Year Old Student He Wanted To Be Her Papi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Brooklyn middle school teacher is facing child endangerment and assault charges after police say he inappropriately touched a 12-year-old student.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to court documents, 41-year-old I.S. 240 STEAM <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/brooklyn-teacher-accused-of-inappropriately-touching-12-year-old-girl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">teacher Emil Agaronov<\/a> allegedly asked the girl for a hug on July 28. Investigators say the student was hesitant, but Agaronov hugged her anyway, allegedly holding her so closely that she could feel his chest and belt buckle.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Prosecutors further allege Agaronov told the girl he wanted to be her \u201cpapi\u201d and was looking for a \u201cLatin wife.\u201d He also allegedly asked whether she wanted to spend the night with him.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The incident happened just two days before the school\u2019s new student orientation.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Department of Education says Agaronov was immediately reassigned away from students. The DOE says he will be fired if he is found guilty.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Agaronov is facing charges of child endangerment and assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn middle school teacher is facing child endangerment and assault charges after police say he inappropriately touched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-322628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322628","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=322628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}