A 35-year-old girl, who beforehand labored as a secretary at a highschool in Miami, was arrested and charged after being accused of making an attempt to determine a romantic relationship with a pupil.
Per Native 10 Information, the suspect, recognized as Vanessa Vigil, was a secretary at Miami Killian Senior Excessive College. The sufferer accused Vigil of being “very flirtatious” with him for about three weeks. The sufferer advised officers he was inappropriately touched by Vigil, including that she additionally advised him he was good-looking and requested for his telephone quantity. The sufferer additionally stated Vigil advised him that she liked him.
The September 21 arrest report detailed cases the place Vigil made the alleged advances towards the sufferer. In considered one of them, Vigil is claimed to have used her nails to the touch the sufferer’s decrease again as he was choosing up a pencil he dropped on the ground.
Police stated the 35-year-old suspect advised the coed, “I might have bagged you if I used to be in highschool with you.” The sufferer additionally stated that on that very same day, Vigil later handed him a “soiled pizza slice key chain” that was holding the keys to her home. The sufferer additionally stated Vigil requested for his telephone quantity whereas a pupil was current. The coed in query advised police that was the case.
The report additional said that Vigil and the coed had one other encounter on the faculty’s workplace the following day, Native 10 Information reported. Throughout that encounter, Vigil gently rubbed the sufferer’s face along with her palms and advised him that he was “so good-looking and your face is easy.” A pupil additionally noticed what occurred, police stated.
Later that day, Vigil advised the sufferer, “I’m in love with you” after caressing his face throughout one other encounter. Vigil is claimed to have later made the sufferer accompany her to a storage closet situated in the primary workplace. Police stated the coed was behind her once they have been strolling to the closet, including that Vigil “positioned her palms on her buttocks and seemed again at him and smiled.”
The coed stated Vigil touched his chest once they entered the room and advised him, “You must get out of right here earlier than I do one thing I’m not alleged to do.” The sufferer stated he additionally stepped backwards after Vigil made motion suggesting she was going to kiss him.
Police stated that as they have been strolling, Vigil touched the sufferer once more and requested for his telephone quantity, however he didn’t give it to her, Native 10 Information reported. Police stated Vigil subsequently blew a kiss on the sufferer as he made his manner out of the workplace.
The sufferer knowledgeable police the incident left him feeling uncomfortable, including that he suffered a panic assault after he made his strategy to the toilet. Vigil was in the end arrested on October 18. And although she didn’t deny giving the pizza key chain to the sufferer, she alleged it was the boy who was flirting along with her.
“I like (the sufferer) as that cool child that I wish to shoot the s*** with,” she advised police, the report said. Vigil additionally denied asking for the sufferer’s telephone quantity and trying to groom him. She has since been charged with battery and offenses towards a pupil.
“It’s fairly disturbing. It’s disturbing, but it surely occurs with folks in energy roles — it occurs loads,” a person whose spouse is an worker on the faculty stated. “I’m simply shocked. I by no means imagined that that will occur right here on the faculty,” a mum or dad additionally stated.
Within the wake of her arrest, the Miami-Dade County Public Colleges knowledgeable the information outlet that Vigil was not an worker on the faculty. “Miami-Dade County Public Colleges is deeply troubled by the disturbing allegations made towards this former worker,” Miami-Dade County Public Colleges stated in a press release.
“M-DCPS cooperated with the authorities through the investigation of this former worker. The sort of comportment is not going to be tolerated because it runs opposite to the skilled conduct we count on from all workers.”
