LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas highschool substitute instructor is accused of assembly one among his college students outdoors of college to have intercourse a number of occasions over winter break, in accordance with an arrest report.
Kurt Tumbagahan, 25, faces costs 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 instructor, recognized as Tumbagahan, who had inappropriate contact with a pupil. The subsequent day officers spoke to the coed at Valley Excessive College who informed them that she had engaged in a sexual relationship together with her English instructor, Tumbagahan.
Tumbagahan was a long-term sub at Valley Excessive College and the coed first met him in the course of the first semester when he took over for the opposite instructor, in accordance with the report.
The coed discovered 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 coed informed police that she by no means went to a paid lesson with him however would obtain instruction from him in his classroom about respiratory work, the report mentioned.
Las Vegas substitute instructor turns himself in after alleged inappropriate relationship with juvenile
Throughout winter 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 automobile or strolling within the car parking zone.
The coed informed police that the primary two occasions they met they solely kissed nevertheless 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 state of affairs, particularly since he isn’t a citizen, in accordance with the report.
“There is allot 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 search out “solutions” in order that they may keep collectively with out penalties, the report confirmed.
“1. We play it safe, obviously we can’t show or tell anyone about us and we can’t hang together at school. It’s still risky but it’ll be allot lower of chance to ruin our lives that way. 2. We try to get your GED, but that’d mean you’ll have to leave valley and everyone there. I don’t want this either for obvious reasons, you still have a life outside of us. 3. We wait. We wait until after you graduate. I’m not sure if this is even possible seeing how we can’t even wait a few days withoutgoing crazy. It’d be the hardest thing we’ll ever experience. But it also has the lowest risk. 4. I quit my job at Valley. This one has low risk too but working at Valley during the day and it being so close to UNLV since I work there too is a really really good position to be in financially speaking. I’d sacrifice this for you but I think you’d be mad if I did lol,” Tumbagahan texted the coed. “ngl I hate all these, but this is the best I could think of without us no ling being together as a possibility but I don’t even wanna consider that as an option.”
Tumbagahan and the coed informed 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 into the police and was taken into custody in entrance of the Clark County Detention Middle with out incident. He’s set to look in courtroom on March 5.
