{"id":65737,"date":"2025-12-09T16:38:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/65737\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:38:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:38:45","slug":"bronx-public-school-math-teacher-arrested-for-sex-abuse-for-slapping-students-butt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/65737\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx public school math teacher arrested for sex abuse for slapping student&#8217;s butt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 60-year-old Bronx high school math teacher was arrested on sex abuse charges after he was accused of slapping a teen student on the butt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.police1.com\/crime\/nypd-shootings-dropped-20-in-2025-compared-to-same-period-last-year\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kiho Kim was taken into custody at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schools.nyc.gov\/schools\/X522\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bronx Design and Construction Academy<\/a> in Melrose just before 2 p.m. Monday after the student reported he had accosted her earlier in the day, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Kim has been a math teacher with the Department of Education for 27 years, according to a LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n<p>Cops charged him with forcible touching and sexual abuse. His arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court was pending Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>An email to the Department of Education for comment was not immediately returned.<\/p>\n<p>With Cayla Bamberger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 60-year-old Bronx high school math teacher was arrested on sex abuse charges after he was accused of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-65737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","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-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65737","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=65737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}