FBI arrests Coral Springs teacher accused of enticing 15-year-old student to have sex

The FBI has arrested a Catholic high school teacher from Coral Springs after they said he enticed a 15-year-old student to have sex with him.

Boris Fernando Bastidas, 35, was arrested Thursday morning by the FBI and the FBI Miami Child Exploitation Task Force, officials said.

According to a criminal complaint, Bastidas, who was a teacher at Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory, a Catholic high school in Hollywood, was arrested on charges of coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity and traveling in interstate or foreign commerce for the purpose of engaging in any illicit sexual conduct with another person.

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According to the school's Instagram page, Bastidas was awarded "Educator of the Year" in 2023 and was the chair of the social studies department.

Officials at the school confirmed Bastidas was a teacher there but has been fired.

"When we became aware of the allegations we conducted an investigation and he was terminated immediately," a school official said in a statement.

NBC6 reached out to Bastidas' attorney but she didn't have any comment.

The lengthy criminal complaint details the shocking allegations against Bastidas that were uncovered after an investigation that began last month.

According to the complaint, Chaminade-Madonna had received multiple Instagram messages regarding a sexual relationship between Bastidas and the teen on Jan 31 and Feb. 1.

School administrators met with Bastidas twice, on Feb. 1 and Feb. 5, and he denied the allegations, the complaint said.

But on Feb. 12, the FBI received a phone complaint from a mother regarding the rape of her 15-year-old daughter by her teacher, Bastidas, the complaint said.

The teen told investigators Bastidas had been her teacher her freshman year, and she had asked him for help in running for sophomore vice president.

They emailed throughout summer 2023, at first through their school emails and later through personal email accounts, and in August 2023 Bastidas told she was more than a student to him, the complaint said.

The school's IT department was able to recover some of the deleted school account emails between the teen and Bastidas, the complaint said.

"I'm crazy about you," Bastidas wrote the teen, according to the complaint.

"I think I'm crazier about you," she replied.

There's no way," he said.

"I think there is," the teen said. "Do you think it's a wise move to write this on our school accounts?"

"Probably not," Bastidas replied.

A school administrator read the emails to Bastidas, who responded that it was an "error in judgement," the complaint said.

A search of the teen's email account found that in August 2023, they discussed meeting up, possibly where the teen worked, the complaint said.

Bastidas told the teen it was "the dangerous not so smart thing to try and do," the complaint said. "If I saw you on the job that would least be funny and cute, probably just make fun of you, but once my mind starts imagining things about if I was there and you were too I can only get myself into trouble."

They continued to discuss meeting up, which they apparently did at a Dunkin on Aug. 9, 2023, the complaint said. Afterwards, they discussed having met up and described holding hands and kissing.

"Today we are going to touch and kiss and stuff, so itll make tonight feel so much better," Bastidas wrote the teen on Aug 12. "Ill just say that so much these last two nights have been about you moving and working it and pleasuring me, so now its gonna be time for me to do something that involves moving and thrusting and satisfying you."

In another message, Bastidas discussed the sex acts he wanted to perform on the teen, the complaint said.

"Ill always love you. I need you, I wanna love you," Bastidas wrote the teen in a September message, according to the complaint.

"Boris I'll always love you too, I need you so much, and I want your love, I wanna give you my love," the teen responded.

"There's not a lot I would do, to risk so much of my professional life, my reputation, even my personal life for…but for some reason [teen's name], you make me risk it all," Bastidas wrote the teen in October.

The teen said over the course of their relationship they engaged in oral sex twice, once in a shopping plaza parking lot where the teen worked in Miramar and again at an abandoned parking lot in Hollywood, the complaint said.

Then in January, during a school Model UN trip to New York, Bastidas and the teen had sex in his hotel room while he was her chaperone, the complaint said.

Investigators also found sexual material of the teen on her phone, which she said she took herself and sent to Bastidas, the complaint said.

Bastidas was expected to make his first appearance in federal court, officials said.

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