The Miami police arrested a young coach of an after-school camp in a city park this Monday, accused of sexually abusing a nine-year-old boy on two occasions.
The investigation that led to the arrest this Monday of Julio Isidro19 years old, began after it was learned that the minor had replicated the action of which he was a victim to a schoolmate.
A counselor spoke with the boy on Nov. 6 about an incident in which he touched another boy’s genitals, and the boy revealed that his instructor at the camp had done the same thing to him and that he “wanted to do it to his friend,” according to the arrest report, to which he had access Local 10 News.
The child attends camp at Robert King High Parklocated at 7025 W. Flagler St., in the city’s Flagami neighborhood, authorities reported.
During a forensic interview this Monday, The boy told a child advocate that Isidro touched his genitals over his clothes for the first time after asking to go to the bathroom, and warned him: “Don’t tell anyone.”
Two days later, Isidro He touched him again when the minor asked permission to drink water. The man told him: “I’m sorry, I did it by accident again,” according to the boy’s story.
An investigator in the case noted in the police document that “the victim approached (Isidro) while he was sitting in a chair outside the ‘large room,’ where the other children could not see the incidents.”
Miami police arrested Isidro at the park on Monday. The man remains held without bail at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center (TGK), jail records show.
The defendant, who appeared in court this Tuesday, faces two counts of dishonest and lascivious abuse against a minor under 12 years of age.
In court, his lawyer Ricardo Hermida rejected both charges and described the case as “purely testimonial,” claiming that “there is no corroboration of this accusation. “My client has no criminal record.”
According to a city spokesperson, Isidro passed a background check before starting work at the park in June 2021. All camp employees “must go through and pass a Level II background check,” he said.
Police asked people who believe they were victims of the accused to contact authorities.
“We don’t know if there are other victims and that’s why we need parents to talk to their children,” the officer stated. Michael Vega, Miami police spokesperson. “We’d rather have a parent come to us and tell us ‘my son was touched inappropriately‘and let us make the determination if it reaches the level of a crime, instead of not reporting it because they think it is not like that.’
