Teacher confesses to having sex in classroom with 12-year-old, police say

An elementary school teacher in Homestead, US was charged Wednesday with having sex with one of his students.

The relationship, police said the 13-year-old victim told them, was “romantic” after referring to him as her “boyfriend.”

Davis Augustine Hodge Jr., 30, is facing four counts of using his authority to have sex with a child.

Investigators say Hodge used his position as a sponsor of the school’s chess club to lure the then-12-year-old into his classroom at the West Homestead K-8 Center after school on Fridays, where they engaged in sexual contact at least four times.

He asked the child, referred to in court records as A.A., “to tell her parents she was staying after school for tutoring.” Police say Hodges and the child had sex three times in November and again in January.

The teen told police that Hodge told her he was her boyfriend.

Hodge’s assigned Miami-Dade public defender Anna Nicole-Cooke hadn’t returned a phone call by mid-afternoon Thursday.

Hodge remained jailed at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Thursday afternoon and was denied bond at his initial court hearing that morning.

A Miami-Dade Public Schools district spokesperson said as soon as the school learned of Hodge’s alleged misdeeds, he was removed from the school and that termination proceedings have started.

Homestead elementary school teacher Davis Hodge, 30, was arrested this week and charged with having sex with a 12-year-old in his classroom after school at least four times.

“After a thorough investigation by the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department, the individual was subsequently arrested,” the spokesperson said Thursday.

Miami-Dade Public Schools has had its share of teacher’s misconduct in recent years.

6, the last time police say the child and Hodge had sexual contact.

Police said the child told them the two began communicating in October through direct messages on Instagram.

At first, police said, they spoke about school.

The conversations then grew sexual with the child and Hodge eventually sending naked pictures of themselves to each other.

At first they touched each other through their clothing, said police.

The child, police said, provided text messages corroborating her account of their interaction.