CUTLER BAY, Fla. – A charter school teacher was taken into custody Wednesday after Miami-Dade police say he sent an explicit image to a 17-year-old student.
Investigators say Alberto Hernandez, who taught at Mater Academy in Cutler Bay, started talking to the teenage boy during winter break.
The student told police that their conversation started getting sexual and that Hernandez, 37, sent him a photo of his genitals.
Police wrote in an arrest report that Hernandez claimed he was sending photographs to an adult.
Hernandez, of southwest Miami-Dade, faces a charge of electronic transmission of material harmful to minors.