Teh One Who Knocks
01-28-2013, 12:09 PM
Ihosvani Rodriguez, Sun Sentinel
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A New Jersey high school teacher was arrested after she reportedly fled to Davie amid accusations she was having sex with a 16-year-old student inside her classroom.
Officials said she fled to Florida to seek "help."
Jennalin M. Garcia-Calle, 28, of Piscataway, N.J.,a teacher at Plainfield High School, made a brief appearance during a Broward County bond court hearing on Friday morning to answer to charges stemming to an alleged sexual relationship with a male student.
Acting on a tip, members of the U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force in Fort Lauderdale found the teacher at the Recovery Institute of South Florida, a drug and psychiatric treatment center in Davie. She was arrested Thursday afternoon at the center with the help of the Fort Lauderdale and Davie Police departments, officials said.
Garcia-Calle is being held without bond and will likely appear at an extradition hearing on Monday, court officials said. She is charged with sexual assault in the 2nd degree and child abuse, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
A Kean University graduate, Garcia-Calle has been teaching math at Plainfield High School since 2008, according to her classroom website.
In a report that appeared on the website mycentraljersey.com, authorities in New Jersey began investigating after the student told a family member about his relationship with the teacher. Family members then contacted police, according to the news site.
Authorities in New Jersey then learned that Garcia-Calle traveled to South Florida to seek help.
The sex encounters took place in her classroom during school hours, Union County Prosecutor Theodore J Romankow told the newsite.
"What made this particularly ... unusual is that they actually had sex in school, in her classroom," Romankow said. "Evidently they blocked the windows and locked the door."
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A New Jersey high school teacher was arrested after she reportedly fled to Davie amid accusations she was having sex with a 16-year-old student inside her classroom.
Officials said she fled to Florida to seek "help."
Jennalin M. Garcia-Calle, 28, of Piscataway, N.J.,a teacher at Plainfield High School, made a brief appearance during a Broward County bond court hearing on Friday morning to answer to charges stemming to an alleged sexual relationship with a male student.
Acting on a tip, members of the U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force in Fort Lauderdale found the teacher at the Recovery Institute of South Florida, a drug and psychiatric treatment center in Davie. She was arrested Thursday afternoon at the center with the help of the Fort Lauderdale and Davie Police departments, officials said.
Garcia-Calle is being held without bond and will likely appear at an extradition hearing on Monday, court officials said. She is charged with sexual assault in the 2nd degree and child abuse, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
A Kean University graduate, Garcia-Calle has been teaching math at Plainfield High School since 2008, according to her classroom website.
In a report that appeared on the website mycentraljersey.com, authorities in New Jersey began investigating after the student told a family member about his relationship with the teacher. Family members then contacted police, according to the news site.
Authorities in New Jersey then learned that Garcia-Calle traveled to South Florida to seek help.
The sex encounters took place in her classroom during school hours, Union County Prosecutor Theodore J Romankow told the newsite.
"What made this particularly ... unusual is that they actually had sex in school, in her classroom," Romankow said. "Evidently they blocked the windows and locked the door."