{"id":97605,"date":"2026-01-12T19:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97605\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T19:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:10:28","slug":"prosecutors-new-york-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97605\/","title":{"rendered":"prosecutors \u2013 New York Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bronx publc school teacher was arrested for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2018\/04\/27\/brooklyn-teacher-sent-lewd-photos-to-middle-school-student-he-sexually-abused-da\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sexually abusing<\/a> a 12-year-old student, telling her he wanted to \u201ctake [her] home,\u201d prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Raul Gonzalez, 61, was arrested around noon Friday at his school in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityneighborhoods.nyc\/mott-haven\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mott Haven<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He is accused of multiple incidents between Nov. 7 and Dec. 5 in which he allegedly touched the waist of the 12-year-old girl, hugging her from behind so that his privates underneath his clothes pressed against her, according to the criminal complaint against him.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez told her, \u201cI want to take you home,\u201d making her scared and alarmed, the complaint alleges.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to sexual abuse, Gonzalez is charged with harassment and endangering the welfare of a child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe safety and wellbeing of our students is our number one priority. This alleged behavior is reprehensible and deeply concerning,\u201d a spokesperson for the city Department of Education said. \u201cThis individual is being removed from the school community, and if convicted, we will pursue termination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez pleaded not guilty during his Firday arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court and was released without bail. His next court appearance is Feb. 25.<\/p>\n<p>With Colin Mixson and Cayla Bamberger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx publc school teacher was arrested for sexually abusing a 12-year-old student, telling her he wanted to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,98,262,263,266,67,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-97605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-brooklyn","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-education","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\/97605","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=97605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}