An ex-gym teacher and girls’ basketball coach in the Bronx allegedly brought his 14-year-old student to a motel and raped her after a game, prosecutors revealed in a stomach-turning indictment.
Jayvone Johnson, 35, was indicted on Wednesday for a slew of charges, including second-degree rape and sexual abuse, for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl who previously played on the girls’ basketball team he coached, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark announced in a statement.
Johnson was arrested in December for the disturbing assault that took place a year prior while he worked as a “physical education specialist” and a middle school basketball coach at the Icahn Charter School 2 in the Van Nest neighborhood, according to his LinkedIn profile.
On Dec. 23, 2024, Johnson allegedly approached the teen he was coaching after a basketball game at the Bronx charter school, prosecutors said.
He then persuaded her to go to the JetSet Motel near Third Avenue and East 184th Street with him, where he proceeded to rape the victim, the DA alleged.
Johnson held both positions at the charter school while also serving as the program director of the after-school New York Junior Tennis & Learning program, which he oversaw through March 2024.
The alleged creep boasted on his LinkedIn profile how teaching middle schoolers taught him “about patience and engaging the minds of the youth,” whom he aspired to help “get recruited at colleges of all types to pursue their dreams.”
“I believe that this will not only be a job to me but a passion. I want to recruit kids to places where I believe they may fit in and gain a wonderful experience,” Johnson wrote on his profile.
The Icahn Charter School 2 previously declined to comment on Johnson’s arrest, but said that he “is no longer employed by the school.”
“This defendant allegedly brought the teenage girl to a motel. There he allegedly raped the victim. As a basketball coach this defendant had the trust of school leaders, parents and students. In this instance instead of honoring that trust, he broke it,” Clark said in a statement.
Johnson is due back in court on April 21.
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