MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Jurors announced Thursday in Miami-Dade County court that they found a former Downtown Doral Charter Upper School employee guilty of four out of the seven crimes against students that he was accused of while he worked at the charter school.
The jurors found Yuniesky Ramirez-Martinez guilty of offenses against students by an authority figure, two counts of promoting a sexual performance by a child, and video voyeurism in a school.
Ramirez-Martinez committed the crimes while he was supposed to protect the teenagers as a security monitor and a volleyball coach at Downtown Doral Charter Upper School, according to the Doral Police Department.
Ramirez-Martinez, then 37, encouraged a couple of 16-year-old students to have sex in a classroom, secretly filmed them, and used the video to sexually harass one of them, according to detectives and prosecutors.
“I saw what you were doing to him and I liked it,” Ramirez-Martinez allegedly told one of the students, according to the victim’s recorded account to detectives, which prosecutors played in court during the trial on Wednesday.
The victim accused Ramirez-Martinez of propositioning her for sex for three days and threatening her while she was a student and he was an employee at the charter school.
Jurors found Ramirez-Martinez, now 39, not guilty of solicitation of a minor for unlawful sexual conduct, lewd and lascivious against certain minors, and distributing obscene material to a minor.
Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez presided over the case.
12 p.m. report