Oct 18, 2024
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Socorro Independent School District voted to terminate a Clarke Middle School math teacher on Thursday night, Oct. 17, after he was arrested twice on sexual abuse charges involving children last month, according to the school district's agenda and court documents obtained by KTSM. As we have previously reported, Llojan Almaraz, 28, was arrested by Socorro Independent School District (ISD) Police on Friday, Sept. 13, and charged with improper relationship between an educator and student, child grooming, indecency with a child, and sexual performance of a child. He posted bond the following day on Saturday, Sept. 14, according to El Paso County Jail records. Almaraz was then arrested again the following week on Friday, Sept. 20, by Socorro ISD Police, and charged with two counts of online solicitation of a minor. He posted bond that same day. Court documents say on Aug. 28, a Walter Clarke Middle School officer received a report of an improper relationship between an educator and a student. The officer met with the middle school’s principal who informed the officer that Almaraz had been “improperly communicating with a female student from the campus.” Almaraz, who was employed at Walter Clarke Middle School since Oct. 2021, was the victim’s teacher during the 2023-2024 school year, according to court documents. According to court documents, a law enforcement official interviewed the victim’s mother who said that her daughter was communicating with Almaraz via telephone calls and text messages. A forensic interview was conducted with the victim. The victim said that she started talking with Almaraz when she was 12-years-old through the “SportsYou” application, which is used to communicate school-based sports information between coaches, parents, and student-athletes in October 2023, according to court documents. The victim said that she and Almaraz eventually exchanged telephone numbers and would communicate by telephone calls and text message conversations. According to court documents, the victim said she and Almaraz met on two separate occasions during June. The victim said the first time she and Almaraz met, they spent about half an hour in the back seat of his truck. She explained there was kissing and touching involved, but they did not have sex in any of the two separate occasions, according to court documents. According to court documents, a “juvenile witness” was interviewed regarding the allegations made against Almaraz. The witness said Almaraz would buy the victim gifts and food throughout the school year. A law enforcement official also discovered that Almaraz gave the victim funds through money transfer applications for Starbucks and other purchases, according to court documents. According to court documents, the victim’s mother also said that Almaraz gave her daughter gifts such as a “lanyard, a Funko Pop action figure, Pandora bracelet charms and a gold necklace.” The victim’s mother provided law enforcement with a screen-recorded text thread conversation between the victim and Almaraz. In some of those texts, Almaraz stated that he wanted to have sex with the victim, date her, and get her pregnant. The victim’s mother said that Almaraz also sent her daughter live images of himself exposing his genitals, according to court documents. On Sept. 5, a law enforcement official spoke to a second juvenile witness who attended Clarke Middle School from 2021 to 2023. This witness said Almaraz was her seventh-grade math teacher. According to court documents, the second witness said Almaraz began communicating with her through the SportsYou application. She also said Almaraz communicated with her during her eighth-grade year via a fake TikTok account. The second witness said Almaraz gave her gifts and felt that she was being “groomed” by him. She said she then stopped communicating with Almaraz, according to court documents.
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