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Middle school P.E. teacher Wendell Nibbs was arrested in 2017 on charges that he sexually assaulted two students. On Wednesday, he was arrested again on two more charges of raping students. One girl said she believes he may have fathered her child. Thread: hrld.us/2TxORpM
Nibbs had already faced five allegations of sexual misconduct before he was arrested. That’s a total of nine students accusing the teacher of inappropriate behavior in the 15 years since he became a teacher.
The first complaint came in May 2004 when a 14-year-old girl told an assistant principal that Nibbs pulled her toward him and told her, "One day you’re going to be mine," while rubbing her waist.
The girls who complained about Nibbs were already vulnerable. They were often in trouble, struggled academically and were overage for their grade. Many of them were bullied, and Nibbs is said to have comforted them and given them food.
While his students filed complaint after complaint against him, Nibbs rose into the teachers union’s inner circle.
So, how did Nibbs stay at the school for so long? @colleen_wright looked at how two powerful institutions — the United Teachers of Dade and Miami-Dade County Public Schools — dealt with 12 years of allegations against the veteran educator. hrld.us/2TxORpM
.@Colleen_Wright spent three months reporting this story and reviewed more than 400 pages of documents obtained through public records requests. If you value accountability journalism like this, please consider subscribing today. #ReadLocal hrld.us/2Tx9Au1
