Jose Ruben Mada, 53, a man who spent 26 years as a teacher and a teacher’s aide before resigning and who has recently been employed part-time for the City of Phoenix “working as an after school arts and crafts coordinator with kids ages 6-12 years old,” was arrested and accused of child molestation and child sexual abuse, according to a March 4 report from Fox News’ KSAZ in Phoenix. Mada was taken into custody on Tuesday by detectives with the Phoenix Child Crimes’ division.
The Arizona Republic reported police as saying that Mada has been sexually abusing children, some of which included his own students, since the 1990s. Mada’s arrest came following complaints lodged by a woman who said that Mada abused her between 1995 and 1997 when she was still a young teen.
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The woman said that Mada would enter her room “and touch her breasts and vagina while kissing her, reports show,’ according to The Arizona Republic. The woman also told police that Mada told her back then never to tell anyone that he had touched and kissed her.
That same report includes a statement Mada made after being confronted by his victim. He said he didn’t know why he did what he did except to say it was “just one of those things that happened.” The police report on Mada also contains allegations that the former teacher had behaved inappropriately and had touched and kissed other students dating back to the early 2000s. When teaching fourth grade at Bethune Elementary in the Phoenix Elementary School District in 2002, Mada was fired after being charged with sexual harassment.
Afterwards, Mada transferred to Rose Linda Elementary in the Roosevelt Elementary School District and resigned in 2009 after allegations made by another student who told the school nurse that “she was afraid of him because he would kiss her, touch her legs and slap her on the buttocks, according to State Board of Education documents,” as shared by The Arizona Republic. Police investigated those allegations but were never able to prove that any criminal acts had actually transpired. The police report filed against Mada states that the former elementary school teacher told police that he has “struggled with his sexual attraction to children for years.”
