A former Mesquite ISD teacher facing a criminal charge for an alleged inappropriate relationship told an investigator that he and a student were dating and had sex, an arrest-warrant affidavit says.
Cesar Antonio Jimenez, 32, faces a charge of improper relationship between educator and student. The girl, whom he taught in an automotive class at Vroonland Vanguard High School, told police the relationship began with texts about her breakup and eventually included sending naked images, the affidavit states.
Some of Jimenez’s alleged misconduct was discovered via security cameras April 5, police wrote in the affidavit. A Vanguard assistant dean was, for an unrelated matter, reviewing on-campus surveillance footage from April 2. Video showed Jimenez and the student watching the sunset about 7:30 p.m., the affidavit said.
The two were standing near each other “as if they were a dating couple” and, for about an hour, were seen on camera interacting inside an auto classroom. Jimenez was allegedly kissing the girl’s hand and the two were embracing and tickling each other.
A detective interviewed the student April 8, and she said her teacher was like a “brother/father figure.”
She “first stated they texted regarding her current breakup with her boyfriend, and they just texted regarding her problems,” the affidavit reads.
Eventually, she and Jimenez started sending each other intimate photos, the affidavit said. They had sex at her residence multiple times, she told the detective.
The detective also talked to Jimenez, who said he and the student were dating and had sex earlier this year. Jimenez said he knew it was illegal to have a sexual relationship with a student, the detective wrote in the affidavit.
Jimenez of Midlothian was arrested April 10 by the U.S. Marshals, according to a news release from Mesquite police officials. Police said they were made aware April 5 of the potential inappropriate relationship.
He resigned shortly after learning of the police investigation, KDFW-TV (Channel 4) reported.
