{"id":437260,"date":"2025-12-10T06:42:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/437260\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T06:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:42:16","slug":"nyc-teacher-arrested-after-allegedly-slapping-16-year-old-student-in-the-buttocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/437260\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC teacher arrested after allegedly slapping 16-year-old student in the buttocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 60-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/03\/15\/us-news\/bronx-teacher-accused-of-abusing-kids-remains-on-nyc-payroll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bronx high school teacher was arrested<\/a> for allegedly slapping the buttocks of a 16-year-old male student, according to authorities and sources.<\/p>\n<p>Kiho Kim, an instructor at a school on East 151st Street in the South Bronx, was busted on Monday afternoon for touching the behind of the teen student, the NYPD and sources said. <\/p>\n<p>Kim taught at the Bronx Design and Construction Academy, <a href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/bronx-teacher-accused-of-sexual-abuse-forcible-touching-at-melrose-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to News12<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37887046\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bronx-design-construction-academy-alfred-24741236.jpg\" alt=\"Exterior of the Bronx Design and Construction Academy building.\" class=\"wp-image-37887046\"  \/>Kiho Kim, 60, allegedly slapped the buttocks of a 16-year-old male student. Tomas E. Gaston<\/p>\n<p>His name is currently listed on the faculty roster of the technical education public school.<\/p>\n<p>He has been hit with sexual abuse and forcible touching charges in connection with the incident, cops said. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.36351531;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37887054\" width=\"804\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sign-bronx-design-construction-academy-24741325.jpg\" alt=\"Sign for Bronx Design &amp; Construction Academy at Alfred E. Smith High School campus.\" class=\"wp-image-37887054\"  \/>Kim has been hit with sexual abuse and forcible touching charges in connection with the incident. Tomas E. Gaston<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A city Public Schools spokesperson told The Post that Kim is \u201cbeing removed from the school community\u201d for the \u201cunacceptable\u201d behavior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis alleged behavior is unacceptable, and the safety of our students is our top priority. This individual is being removed from the school community, and if convicted, we will pursue termination,\u201d the spokesperson said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Kim was awaiting his arraignment in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/24\/us-news\/nyc-charter-school-teacher-repeatedly-raped-13-year-old-student-in-her-home-da\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bronx Criminal Court<\/a> as of Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 60-year-old Bronx high school teacher was arrested for allegedly slapping the buttocks of a 16-year-old male student,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":437261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,11307,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,10410,6214,22598,5305,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-437260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arrests","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-sexual-abuse","18":"tag-students","19":"tag-teachers","20":"tag-the-bronx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115693915766141453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}