| Yonkers
School Teacher
Arrested for
Streaming Sex
With Student
Jailed for Bar
Mitigation Due
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Aug 28 – A
former Yonkers
school teacher
on July 12,
2023 was
arrested then
released for
sexual
enticement and
filming of a
minor.
Inner
City Press was
present for
her
arraignment
before U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
John P.
Cronan, the
only media
there. Thread:
Now
at arraignment
of SANDY
CARAZAS-PINEZ,
a former high
school teacher
in Yonkers,
for enticing a
minor victim
to engage in
illegal sexual
activity and
live streaming
it.
AUSA:
We agree to
release on
[unsecured]
bond of
$75,000. Can
travel to
Connecticut,
release on her
own signature.
She has
retained
counsel.
Judge:
How do you
plead?
Not
guilty.
Judge
(to AUSA) Tell
me about the
alleged
conduct
AUSA: She was
a teacher...
Conduct was
live streamed.
We wiill do
extractions
from devices.
Judge: We'll
meet again
Sept 14 at
11:30 am.
Earlier
the
prosecutors
said they were
charging SANDY
CARAZAS-PINEZ
with enticing
a minor victim
to engage in
illegal sexual
activity and
production of
child
pornography.
As alleged in
the
Indictment,
CARAZAS-PINEZ,
a former high
school teacher
in Yonkers,
New York,
enticed one of
her students,
who was only
16 years old
at the time,
to engage in
sexual
activity with
CARAZAS-PINEZ
and further
induced the
same student
to participate
in
live-streamed
sexually
explicit
conduct while
on video calls
with
CARAZAS-PINEZ.
CARAZAS-PINEZ
was arrested
this morning
and will be
presented in
Manhattan
federal court
later today
before U.S.
Magistrate
Judge Robert
W.
Lehrburger.
The case was
assigned to
U.S. District
Judge John P.
Cronan.
In
November 2023
Judge Cronan
docketed: "the
Court modified
the
defendant's
conditions by
adding the
condition that
Ms.
Carazas-Pinez
may not
contact any
former student
outside the
presence of
counsel."
On
April 15, 2024
Carazas-Pinez
was remanded
to jail after
being found to
have made an
"unauthorized
stop at an
elementary
school on
Staten Island,
then on
another day to
a bar "before
going to a
wooded area."
Thereafter
the status
conference
kept being
pushed back,
from June to
July 11 -
which on July
10 was also
adjourned, to
August 28,
based on
counsel's
letter about
"a mental
examination by
our mitigation
expert... to
be conducted
through Zoom."
On August 28,
Inner City
Press went.
The US
Attorney's
Office,
according to
the defense,
wanted a more
detailed
mitigation
submission,
then said it
would take a
month to
review it, at
two levels.
Defense: I
just finished
a six week
homicide trial
on Staten
Island, now
I'll submit a
mitigation
report for
this client.
Judge:
October 23,
then. Is 9:30
too early, if
you're coming
in from Staten
Island?
Defense:
It's part of
the five
borough.
Anyway, I'm
coming in from
New Jersey.
9:30
it is.
The
case is US v.
Carazas-Pinez,
23-cr-346
(Cronan)
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