LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A highschool substitute trainer is accused of assembly one in all his college students outdoors of college to have intercourse a number of occasions over winter break, in response to an arrest report.
Kurt Tumbagahan, 25, faces prices of contacting a minor by an individual of authority for intercourse and college worker partaking in a sexual act with an individual 16 or older, information confirmed.
On Jan. 7, detectives had been notified of an investigation right into a trainer, recognized as Tumbagahan, who had inappropriate contact with a pupil. The following day officers spoke to the coed at Valley Excessive College who instructed them that she had engaged in a sexual relationship together with her English trainer, Tumbagahan.
Tumbagahan was a long-term sub at Valley Excessive College and the coed first met him throughout the first semester when he took over for the opposite trainer, in response to the report.
The scholar realized that she shared the identical curiosity in taking part in the trumpet as Tumbagahan and that he performed for UNLV and had given different male college students non-public classes. The scholar instructed police that she by no means went to a paid lesson with him however would obtain instruction from him in his classroom about respiration work, the report mentioned.
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They might typically discuss on the aspect after the teachings and they’d continuously ship one another songs by way of textual content messages and thru the college e mail, police mentioned.. The connection between Tumbagahan and the coed developed and private numbers had been exchanged earlier than winter break.
Over that break, Tumbagahan met with the coed on 4 events. The primary 3 times they met in a car parking zone close to her dwelling. The 2 would hang around for hours both inside his car or strolling within the car parking zone, police mentioned.
The scholar instructed police that the primary two occasions they met, they solely kissed, nonetheless, the third and fourth occasions they’d intercourse in his automobile, the report mentioned.
Textual content messages between Tumbagahan and the coed confirmed that he was conscious of the severity of the scenario, particularly since he’s not a citizen, in response to the report.
“There is a lot of risk. More than you know. Idk if I mentioned this before otherthan losing everything I sacrificed for, I’d be sent back to my home country cause I’m not a citizen,” Tumbagahan’s textual content mentioned.
He went on to try to seek out “solutions” in order that they might keep collectively with out penalties, the report confirmed.
Tumbagahan and the coed instructed one another “I love you” and expressed how a lot they missed one another a number of occasions. One textual content Tumbagahan despatched mentioned, “Of course!!! You know me well enough now, I live being able to show my love for you in that way, but I love you somuch deeper than that,” the report mentioned. “I wish I can look you in the eyes when I say this so you can see it in my soul, I love [redacted] with my whole soul, I’m so madly in love with you.”
On Jan. 29, Tumbagahan turned himself in to the police and was taken into custody in entrance of the Clark County Detention Middle with out incident. He’s set to seem in court docket on March 5.
