HOMESTEAD, Fla. – A 16-year-old girl told police that she was “scared” of a now-former Homestead charter school teacher who had been sending her inappropriate text messages, according to an arrest report obtained Friday by Local 10 News.
Homestead police arrested Josh Rudy Goodwin, 35, of southwest Miami-Dade, on Thursday on multiple charges.
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He taught at Somerset Academy South Homestead Middle/High, located at 305 NE Second Road.
According to the newly-obtained arrest report, the allegations against Goodwin came to light Wednesday after the girl told a trusted teacher about what he had been doing. The teacher then reported the allegations to school administrators.
Goodwin resigned the same day, police said.
Police wrote that they uncovered a series of “alarming” and sexually-charged text messages between Goodwin and the girl.
“I want to be in your skin lol,” police said one of the messages read.
They said Goodwin also texted her “I want to kiss u all over” and “Where u liked (sic) being kissed and touched.”
According to the arrest report, the girl told police she “tried to limit her communications” with Goodwin, whom she was “scared” of him “because he had access to her personal information and knew the details of her personal life that she had confided in him.”
“As much as she tried to limit contact with him, (Goodwin) was persistent in trying to get her attention,” a detective wrote. “(He) began appearing at school pep rallies and sports functions, something he had never done before. If he saw her interacting with someone or on her phone, he would message her and tell her that he was ‘jealous.’”
Police said Goodwin, who lives in the Glenvar Heights area, turned himself in to Homestead police Thursday.
A judge Friday found probable cause to charge him with an offense against a student by an authority figure, child abuse causing no great bodily harm and stalking.
Goodwin was being held in Miami-Dade’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $16,000 bond as of Friday.