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Vanilla Gorilla · Dec 28, 2016

Former Student Is Charged in Killings of Ex-Teacher and Their Son
It was a minor tabloid scandal: a Bronx high school teacher caught having a sexual relationship with a student. She was 32. He was in high school, 17 or 18. Soon, they moved in together and she was pregnant. They bought wedding bands.
But they began to argue: about how they would raise their son when he was born; about how the student, though still a minor, drank rum. And as quickly as it had begun, the illicit relationship seemed to be over and they had resumed their separate lives at DeWitt Clinton High School, she as a science teacher, he as a student.
Over the next four years, the woman, now a former teacher — her teaching certification was revoked because of the relationship — attended graduate school and raised their son. The former student, Isaac Duran Infante, paid child support and occasionally visited, but was otherwise kept at a distance.
On Monday, the former teacher, Felicia Barahona, and the boy, Miguel, 4, were found dead in their apartment in Upper Manhattan. By Tuesday, detectives were trying to learn as much about Mr. Duran Infante as possible. And on Tuesday night, the police announced that Mr. Duran Infante, 23, had been charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
The charges against Mr. Duran Infante made for a shocking turn in a story that, until her death, had cast Ms. Barahona as a malefactor or a punch line. Her photograph has appeared in The New York Post and The Daily News in recent years, as the tabloids chronicled a spate of prohibited, and often illegal, student-teacher relationships.

Document: Report on Bronx Teacher's Relationship With a Student
One law enforcement official, who was not authorized to discuss a continuing investigation and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that Mr. Duran Infante had given detectives a statement, although its contents were not immediately known.
The details of the intimate relationship between the two are laid out in a 2012 memorandum by the office of the special commissioner of investigation for New York City’s schools. It was not immediately clear how closely they had been involved in each other’s lives since then.

Mr. Duran Infante’s family could not immediately be reached for comment. It appears that he lived in the Bronx as well as in Pennsylvania in recent years. On Tuesday, law enforcement officials and relatives of Ms. Barahona offered differing versions of his surname, with some calling him Isaac Duran and others, including the police in the news release announcing the charges, referring to him as Isaac Duran Infante.
Ms. Barahona’s half brother, Jaime Bravo, said she and Mr. Duran Infante argued over how Miguel was being raised. “It was over who gets the kid, how do we figure out what payments are done, if he’s going to pay support or not,” Mr. Bravo said.
Mr. Bravo said he believed Mr. Duran Infante had paid child support and had visitation rights.
According to Mr. Bravo and other relatives, Ms. Barahona had been moving on with her life. “She had a fall from grace and was piecing things back together,” Mr. Bravo said, adding that she was studying forensic science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and worked there as well.
A more distant relative, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Ms. Barahona was quite busy given her involvement with the Coast Guard Reserve, working and studying at John Jay and raising Miguel and a daughter who was around 8.
“It’s horrible,” the relative said, adding, “whatever her transgressions, she certainly didn’t deserve a death sentence.”
“Little Miguel certainly didn’t do anything wrong,” this person said. Mr. Bravo described the boy as “your basic, happy 4-year old,” and a fan of Thomas the Tank Engine who was always reaching for his mother’s phone.

Miguel and his mother were found dead in their West 153rd Street apartment on Monday morning, the police said. Ms. Barahona, 36, was found on the living room floor with an electrical cord wrapped around her neck; Miguel was in the bathtub, the police said.
Julie Bolcer, a spokeswoman for the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, said in an email that both deaths had been ruled homicides.
Detectives continued on Tuesday to try to track Mr. Duran Infante’s actions in recent days.
The 2012 memo written by school district investigators offers an account of the relationship between Ms. Barahona and Mr. Duran Infante, although his name is redacted and he is identified as Student A in the version obtained by The New York Times. The report indicates that Ms. Barahona had been his teacher.
On Halloween 2011, the memo says, Ms. Barahona and the student met to take her daughter trick-or-treating in Manhattan. Within a few weeks, Ms. Barahona and the student had begun to have sex, according to the memo. Soon, Ms. Barahona was pregnant and the student was accompanying her to doctor appointments.
The student moved in with Ms. Barahona in January 2012. They lived together for five days, in Ms. Barahona’s telling; Mr. Duran Infante said it was three weeks, according to the memo. They argued about alcohol, about a comment Mr. Duran Infante had made to Ms. Barahona’s daughter, and about whether Mr. Duran Infante would take their son to visit his relatives.

“Barahona responded that Student A was not going to take the baby anywhere and they argued,” according to the memo.
Before long, they split up, the memo says.
The relationship came to the attention of the authorities in February 2012 based on a tip from someone who had talked to Mr. Duran Infante. When investigators contacted him, he acknowledged that he had “fallen in love” and had had a sexual relationship with Ms. Barahona. He told investigators that she was pregnant.
“He embraced the idea of being a father,” the memo says.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/nyregion/felicia-barahona-death-isaac-duran.html?_r=0

Other sources say first started "dating" when he was 16 she 32, and she waited till he was 17 to have sex, ..........so she wouldnt get thrown in jail

What length of jail time do you think young Isaac should get?

4 year old kid obviously did nothing wrong, but seriously? Isaac was 16

morrow · Dec 28, 2016

Murder is murder...

Meliai · Dec 28, 2016

He wasnt 16 when he murdered them though.

I can feel some sympathy for any psychological (and, technically, physical) abuse he suffered, but as far as killing a child, i feel the same way i feel about anyone hurting an innocent child

MorphGirl · Dec 28, 2016

I can tell you what they do with high school teachers in Toronto who have sexual relations with students.. They promote them to the board offices and put them in a position where by they decide what to go with other teachers who cross the line, orif they did.... suspend, move them to another school or fire them....etc. I know of one teacher that this happened with and she definitely did it to a ma.e student.

I feel for the kid and the teacher definitely crossed a line, I don't understand how one can say that a 17 year old is fair game.

And when they ar not adults. she fucked up his life and is definitely a pedophile. She conditioned him and clearly while they were living together further corrupted him and ruined his life by buying a minor alcohol. Surely she is unfit and criminal. Doesn't justify the murders, definitely not to the little boy, but I don't think she deserved custody of minors either. The school board should have done more with the situation when it first happened.

I can't decide on his sentence, was it premeditated? Is he crazy? Definite jail, for how long I do not know.

SpacemanSpiff · Dec 28, 2016

personally i give zero fucks about the story

for murder convictions i tend to prefer life sentences ..without ever getting chances for parole

Lynnbrown · Dec 28, 2016

This is a seriously disturbed dude that murdered his own child and the ex-teacher/abuser.

Seriously disturbed = fucked up.

I mean time has passed, and he decides to kill them both now? smh

They should put him in jail and keep him there. SHOULD he ever get out, well...that shouldn't even come up for like 50 yrs.

If he is going to do that to his Own Child...what might he do to anybody...

damn awful

Irminsul · Dec 28, 2016

Yes. Put him in jail. And I wouldn't feed him either.

I'minmyunderwear · Dec 28, 2016

Spaceman Spiff said:

personally i give zero fucks about the story
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yeah, that was a lot of irrelevant information, followed by "and then the guy murdered two people." the "murdered two people" is what matters and what should determine the sentence.

Irminsul · Dec 28, 2016

I got the jist of it in the first sentence. Then skim read.

Meliai · Dec 28, 2016

I'minmyunderwear said:

yeah, that was a lot of irrelevant information, followed by "and then the guy murdered two people." the "murdered two people" is what matters and what should determine the sentence.
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Any decent lawyer will use the backstory to get a lighter sentence though

I'minmyunderwear · Dec 28, 2016

^ yeah, but the question wasn't what sentence will he get, it was what sentence should he get.

YouFreeMe · Dec 29, 2016

He was in his twenties when he murdered his ex and child.

Years after any relationship between them had ended.

Plenty of people are the victim of illicit sexual affairs when they are under 18, but the vast majority of them don't go on to strangle someone with an electrical chord and murder their own child.

I'd be interested in hearing his rationalization for committing this crime. I think he should be tried like anyone else, the backstory seems somewhat irrelevant here (although that teacher was shitty and unethical in her actions ).

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