A high school teacher in New Jersey has been arrested and charged after he allegedly asked two students for naked pictures.
Investigators said Jose Maria, a Spanish teacher at Passaic High School in Woodland Park, told two teenage students he would give them better grades in exchange for the pictures.
He also told them he would buy them Chinese food and alcohol if he could pick them up.
Maria later admitted what he had done in conversations with detectives.
Maria, 39, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and official misconduct.
He was suspended from his teaching position.
The case has been referred to a grand jury.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact Detective Kristin Falotico of the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit at (973) 837-7661.
