Jennalin Garcia-Calle, Jersey teacher arrested in Florida, having sex with student in her classroom during school hours
A New Jersey teacher will be sent back to her home state this week after being caught in South Florida after fleeing charges of sex with one of her studnets.
Jennalin Garcia-Calle, 28, had little to say as a judge read her the charges lodged against her in a Florida courtroom. Investigators said U.S. Marshals arrested Garcia-Calle after she checked herself into a rehab facility.
Prosecutors said Garcia-Calle was not only teaching algebra at Plainfield High School but also having sexual relations with a 16-year-old male student in her classroom during school hours.
“It was after school, the door was locked, the window was blocked,” Union County Prosecutor Theodore Romankow said. “The fact that someone would be that brazen to do this is very troubling.”
She’s also accused of performing indecent, immoral or unlawful acts in the presence of the teen, the U.S. Marshals said. The acts are alleged to have taken place between December and January.
A warrant had been issued for Garcia-Calle’s arrest on Tuesday, and the U.S. Marshals received information on Thursday that she’d fled the Newark, New Jersey area, the agency said.