Sandy Carazas-Pinez
By Dan Murphy
NYC Federal Judge John Cronan has sent former Yonkers teacher Sandy Carazas-Pinez to prison after she violated the terms of her bail related to her arrest last year after she was caught having sex and filming the acts, with a minor student at the Biondi School in Yonkers, a school for special needs children.
Carazas-Pinez has been out on bail after her arrest last year, and the conditions of her bail were strict; she was restricted to home confinement except for a few permissible circumstances. She was also banned from having any interactions with children under 18.
Carazas-Pinez had a GPS monitor on her but she violated the terms of her confinement when she was permitted to leave her home and cash a check but instead went to a restaurant and a “wooded area.”
After being kicked out of the home she shared with her husband, Carazas-Pinez was recently staying with her parents. For the past month, she has been an inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center
Here is the story and charges against her from 2023.
On July 12, SDNY US Attorney Damian Williams announced the unsealing of a two-count Indictment charging SANDY CARAZAS-PINEZ with enticing a minor victim to engage in illegal sexual activity and production of child pornography. As alleged in the Indictment, CARAZAS-PINEZ, a former high school teacher at the Biondi School in Yonkers, enticed one of her 16-year old students to engage in sexual activity with her and further induced the same student to participate in live-streamed sexually explicit conduct while on video calls with CARAZAS-PINEZ. CARAZAS-PINEZ was arrested on July 13 and no longer works for the Yonkers Public Schools.
CARAZAS-PINEZ was a high school teacher at a school for kindergarten through 12th grade students located in Yonkers, New York (“School-1”). From in or about November 2022 through in or about February 2023, CARAZAS-PINEZ abused her position as a teacher at School-1 by inducing and attempting to induce a student (“Minor Victim-1”) at School-1 into a sexual relationship with CARAZAS-PINEZ. Minor Victm-1 was 16 years old at the time of the abuse.
It was the unidentified minor student who broke of the relationship with Carazas-Pinez, but not after she threatened him to punish him at school if he didn’t continue their sexual activity.
Eventually, the two were seen together outside of the school, and others had witnessed the inappropriate behavior inside the school. Carazas-Pinez was terminated in March.
