Miami-Dade music teacher is accused of inappropriate relationships with students
Police arrested a Miami-Dade County Public Schools music teacher last week after he was accused of having inappropriate relationships with three female students.
Jose Francisco Montesguedez, 40, who teaches at Alonzo and Tracy Mourning Senior High School in North Miami Beach, was booked into the Metro West Detention Center on Saturday on charges of offenses on students by an authority figure, contributing to the delinquency of minors and battery, all second-degree felonies.
Miami-Dade Schools Police began investigating the alleged crimes in November after a teacher reported that a student told her about a relationship that the girl had with Montesguedez, according to his arrest report.
The girl was 16 when she met Montesguedez through a friend who was one of his students, the report states. The girl told police that Montesguedez would let her stay in his classroom during school hours, “resulting in absences from her classes,” detectives wrote in the report.
Police say Montesguedez gave the girl THC vape pens and nicotine products that he confiscated from other students. He once asked her for a kiss in exchange for a vape pen, according to the report.
The girl told police that one day Montesguedez grabbed the girl and kissed her against her will, the report states. She told police she pushed him away.
Another girl told police she was Montesguedez’s student for two years in his chorus class. He told her he had many contacts in the music industry and that she felt comfortable with him, according to the report. That changed when he grabbed her against her will and tried to kiss her, the report states.
The girl told police “she was shocked by the incident,” according to the report.
A third girl told police that she confided in Montesguedez about “family and relationship issues,” and he would share details about his sexual experiences in college, according to the report.
The girl told police that Montesguedez also regularly gave her nicotine vape pens and offered her a THC vape pen, but she declined because she only used nicotine, according to the report.
Much of what Montesguedez told police after they arrested him was redacted from the report, but he did deny handing the girls vape pens.
Information about his legal representation was not immediately available. As of Tuesday, he was still being held at the Metro West Detention Center on a bond of $16,000.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools said it has begun termination proceedings against Montesguedez “and will ensure the individual is precluded from seeking future employment with [the district].”
