MIAMI — A Miami-Dade County center school teacher was arrested late June for allegedly obtaining an inappropriate marriage with a 12-yr-previous pupil.
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An arrest affidavit stated that Martai McCullough, 26, was charged on June 30 with offenses versus students by authority figures, molestation, lewd and lascivious perform and exhibition of a kid underneath 18.
According to the affidavit, the victim’s father noted to a Miami-Dade Universities Police officer that his daughter was in an inappropriate relationship with her trainer, determined as McCullough, at Horace Mann Center School, the place she was college student in McCullough’s class for the duration of the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 tutorial yrs.
The target said that through her first yr, she and McCullough began exchanging notes just just before Xmas 2022. After the holiday split, the teacher then began to exchange notes to the victim, expressing “I like you” and that they would verbally inform every single other that they beloved every other, way too.
Afterwards on, McCullough then commenced to purchase lunch for the victim by way of UberEats and DoorDash, and the victim said that she would skip class to go to his classroom to meet up with with him through his prepared lunch period and hug each other, the affidavit mentioned.
In the course of the pursuing 12 months, the target was enrolled in McCullough’s course yet again, wherever she stated that the connection formulated to the place to in which they would kiss each and every other, sit on his lap and that he would seize her buttocks whilst hugging.
Then on the victim’s birthday, McCullough approached her and requested what she required for her birthday right before offered her a bracelet he bought for her. The following spring break, the victim then contacted McCullough on Instagram and began to speak privately through the application with solution usernames to “steer clear of suspicion of a romantic relationship,” the affidavit mentioned.
Then at the conclusion of the school yr, the target contacted McCullough on Instagram about a dropped sweater in his classroom. The victim said that they then commenced to connect by textual content and video clip chat, and McCullough commenced to check with the target for inappropriate pics and would expose himself to her through video just before relocating onto additional inappropriate textual content and video clip exchanges, according to the affidavit.
The affidavit also stated that a number of notes from McCullough were discovered in the victim’s possession, with phrases this kind of as “I like you too,” “Hi loser, you glance fantastic now,” “You search beautiful right now,” and “What ever I did to make you mad, I am sorry. Hope you are ok.”
The target then mentioned that she took screenshots of the defendant exposing himself, and each her and McCullough’s products were being impounded by the university law enforcement for assessment.
Following specified his rights, McCullough confessed to his actions, and he was arrested and transported to Turner Guilford Knight Correction Centre for booking.
