Brooklyn Assistant Principal Under Investigation For Exchanging 3,000 Texts with Student
A Brooklyn assistant principal Christian Del Re may lose his job for “inappropriate contact” with a high school student, On Tuesday, investigators found he exchanged an astonishing 2,919 text messages with her over 91 days.
Christian Del Re, 32, has denied any wrongdoing but the assistant principal's copious text messages and after-midnight phone conversations with the 18-year-old student, raised enough red flags to get him suspended from Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences, officials said.
On Sept. 6, he was reassigned to duties with no contact with students but he still collects his $101,056 annual salary as he fights the charges.
“We are moving forward with disciplinary charges against Christian Del Re and will be seeking his termination,” said Education Department spokeswoman Connie Pankratz. “He has been reassigned and is no longer at the school.”The investigation begin in January when a student came forward to a staffer at school and told them of a possible relationship with a classmate. In fact, other students had witnessed some questionable behavior of Del Re.
Though students claimed they saw Del Re playing with the young woman’s hair and leaving the school’s parking lot with her in his car, both Del Re and the student in question told investigators that their relationship never went beyond texting and talking.
“Del Re said that he never touched” the student, according to Condon’s report.The report further states:
Investigators examined Del Re’s cell phone and found he had texted the girl 1,442 times between Nov. 2, 2011, and Jan. 31, while the student texted him 1,477 times. It averages out to 1.3 text messages per hour between them for 91 days.
When they weren’t texting, they were on the phone with each other. Numerous phone calls between them occurred after midnight and ranged from 49 to 163 minutes, officials said. On at least two occasions, he called her about 3 a.m.
Del Re, who married his high school sweetheart, Gina, in 2005, claimed he was just helping the student cope with problems. He told investigators she “would talk to him about problems at school, problems with other students and problems with her boyfriend,” according to Condon’s report.It's apparent Del Re has the backing of many of his students as they support him 100%:
A dozen students interviewed outside the school Tuesday claimed Del Re is being railroaded.
“He’s a good man and he was always very involved with the school and very helpful. He knew how to offer students advice,” said senior Carolina Guarrella.
Guarrella and other students insisted the student who first squealed on Del Re had a beef with the educator’s alleged paramour.
“There could be 3,000 text messages, but it doesn’t mean there was anything sexual,” Guarrella said. “I don’t believe it.”We are not sure of the exact relationship that has gone on with the student and principal but we do believe there were too many texts exchanged between them.
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