SANTIAGO DE CUBA, January 29 (Luis Alberto Rivera, APLO) – Eleven
teachers in the "Antonio Maceo" vocational secondary school here have
been implicated in a sex scandal involving prostitution, pornography and
corruption of minors.
One of the eleven, physical education teacher Jorge Clavijo, is under arrest
and the rest are free on bond awaiting trial, accused of having sex with female
students. They have all been fired from the school.
Clavijo is said to have established a sexual services agency for foreigners
in which an unspecified number of students were presumably involved. According
to this scheme, Clavijo would establish contact with the foreigners, set the
price in dollars, take the students out of the school in his car and deliver
them to their dates, collect the money, and return the students to the school,
giving them a cut of the earnings.
The "Antonio Maceo" school has been implicated in previous,
although less serious, scandals. It is a live-in school holding close to 2,000
students between 14 and 17 years of age. It is considered a very selective
school to which incoming students must present outstanding academic records and
pass an entrance exam.
In the absence of official reports, several versions of the story have been
swirling around the city. One has arrested teacher Clavijo sending photographs
of the students to Jamaica, in order to promote them in the international sex
market. According to this story, the photographs came to the attention of Cuban
officials abroad who notified authorities here. Another version is that an
investigation was started when a student complained that his girlfriend was
continually harassed by one of the teachers eventually implicated in the
scandal. The official press has not reported the incident.
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