Sunday, August 07, 2005

Male Spanish Teacher Charged in Queens Rape

“A Current Affair” isn’t reporting this one.

It’s not on the front page of the New York Post either although the venue is Queens.

Katie Couric isn’t interviewing Queens DA Richard Brown about the case.

Maybe it’s because it’s not a Catholic school under the microscope, attorney John Aretakis and Albany County District Attorney David Soares aren’t pandering to the press in this case and it’s not a female teacher who has been arrested.

A Benjamin N. Cardozo High School teacher has been charged with twice raping and sexually abusing a 16-year-old student at his Flushing residence six weeks ago.

The Queens district attorney’s office has identified the defendant as Francisco Aguilar, 28, of 152-18 Union Turnpike. Aguilar has been charged with two counts of rape in the third degree, two counts of sexual misconduct, one count of endangering the welfare of a child, and two counts of sexual abuse in the third degree.