Benjamin Menendez, 38, 5th-grade teacher at Academy of International Education, Miami-Dade Public Schools, Miami, Florida, "allegedly showing porn on his cellphone to his girlfriend’s six-year-old child" Miami: Teacher Arrested For Allegedly Showing Porn Video To Child (Aug 21 2013) Benjamin Menendez, a fifth grade teacher, was in court Wednesday. The judge lowered the charges from lewd and lascivious to an obscenity charge ... Since the incident Menendez has been fired, as told as told by the school’s principal to CBS4’s David Sutta. Menendez’s actions came to light after the boy’s biological father caught his son acting out what he had seen on the video Menendez had showed him. The six-year-old victim, according to authorities, identified Menendez by the photo on his driver’s license. According to the arrest affidavit Mendendez, after showing the video to this girlfriend’s child, asked the kid if he liked it. Tags:
WSVN: Teacher arrested for showing porn to child (Aug 21 2013) Police have arrested a South Florida teacher accused of showing a minor pornographic material. Investigators said Benjamin Menendez was charged with obscenity after he showed his live-in girlfriend's son a pornographic video.
Daily Caller: Filthy fifth-grade teacher busted for showing porn to six-year-old boy (Aug 22 2013) Florida elementary school teacher Benjamin Menendez showed porn to a six-year-old boy, reports CBS Miami. The fifth-grade teacher at Academy of International Education charter school in suburban Miami Springs has lost his job and is facing an obscenity charge.Menendez’s tale of spectacularly bad decision-making began, of course, when he showed porn from his cellphone to his girlfriend’s six-year-old son. However, things went south for him when the boy mimicked the porn action he had seen—in front of his biological father. The boy was able to identify Menendez, 38, from his driver’s license photo.
