Florida Middle School teacher arrested after being accused of kissing a student on the lips in class

A Florida middle school teacher accused of kissing one of his students on the lips in class was hauled out of the building and handcuffed by police in an arrest captured on video.

Carlos Aguirre Rendon, 29, a math teacher at Deltona Middle School, had reportedly been pursuing a relationship with the 15-year-old female student before he was arrested Wednesday.

Bodycam footage of the arrest captured the moment Aguirre stepped outside the school where an officer immediately handcuffed the father of two young children and placed him inside a police vehicle. 

According to court documents, Aguirre asked two other students to leave and then ‘stood up, wrapped his arms around (the victim) while she was facing him, pulled her mask down and kissed her on the lips,’ despite her attempts to pull away, on January 7. 

Police began investigating Aguirre on January 11 after someone tipped them off to the disturbing incident, the sheriff’s office said in a press release.  

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The teen’s parents were aware of ‘a close relations between their daughter and the teacher since the beginning of the school year but didn’t think anything of it because she had been attached to teachers in the past,’ according to a charging affidavit. 

However, the girl’s parents became concerned when her mother said she saw Aguirre with his arm around her daughter at a local park.

Aguirre, who lives in Longwood, would bring his two young children to Firefighters Memorial Park in Deltona – about 25 miles away – to meet her, the affidavit said.   

Surveillance video shows that when they met at the park in the Orlando suburbs, Aguirre would leave his two kids in their car seats while he talked with the victim. 

There, he would look through her phone and ‘ask if (she) was talking to boys,’ according to the affidavit.   

Witnesses told cops Aguirre often sought to be alone with the victim and appeared to be pursuing a relationship with her outside of normal teacher-student contact,’ according to court records, which also said that he and the teen ‘had discussed having a relationship once (the victim) turned 18. 

‘(Aguirre) would regularly ask other students to leave the classroom so he could be alone with her. He would follow her around campus in between classes and even offered himself as a private English tutor when he noticed she was struggling with the subject,’ the affidavit said.

When school administrators learned of the allegations against the teacher, the victim was transferred out of his class and Aguirre was advised not to return to the school pending an ongoing investigation. 

On Tuesday, deputies learned that Aguirre had approached potential witnesses at a local park asking about the victim and telling at least one witness not to talk to the police.

Police charged Aguirre with lewd or lascivious conduct and witness tampering.

He was arrested and released after posting $12,500 bond.