NYC teacher fired after being indicted for trying to film 11-year-old boy in bathroom stall

[Kamaji]

NYC teacher fired after being indicted for trying to film 11-year-old boy in bathroom stall

By Larry Celona and Priscilla DeGregory
August 3, 2023

A math teacher being sued for allegedly filming an 11-year-old student in a bathroom stall has been indicted on child abuse charges — and was fired from his job at a prestigious Manhattan all-boys school, The Post has learned.

Matthew Chicas, 29, faces charges of unlawful surveillance, possessing a sexual performance by a child and endangering the welfare of a child for trying to record the boy urinating from the next-door stall with his cellphone, court papers allege.

Chicas, who was a teacher at Xavier High School in Chelsea, allegedly pulled the perverted stunt on April 15 while he was working at the REACH leadership program and Jesuit preparatory class for middle school boys that was being held at Regis High School on the Upper East Side.

He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on the indictment Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Xavier — which had suspended Chicas after his April arrest — announced in an email to the school community Wednesday that the educator “is no longer employed” at the prep school.

School president Jack Raslowsky explained to The Post that the school didn’t renew Chicas’ contract for the coming school year following his suspension that continued through the end of the 2022-2023 term.

Raslowsky declined to comment further.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/03/nyc-teacher-indicted-for-trying-to-film-boy-in-bathroom/

[Kamaji]

Chicas, who was a teacher at Xavier High School in Chelsea

Well, that there was his basic mistake - working for a private school.  If he'd worked for the NYC public schools, he'd have been assigned to one of the city's so-called "rubber classrooms" where he would have no students, and nothing to do (other than running whatever online or virtual business he wanted to start) while still pulling down full pay and benefits.

[mountaineer]

Exactly my first thought. A public school teacher in NYC never faces the consequences for any act, it seems, no matter how perverted and illegal.