LOUISIANA
The Times-Picayune
By Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on November 03, 2015
A 9-year-old girl who thought she was going to see a picture of her catechism teacher dressed as Santa Claus told her mother that the teacher instead showed her a photo of a naked man.
Authorities arrested Daryle Rodriguez, 71, of Harvey, and booked him with indecent behavior with a juvenile, according to Col. John Fortunato, spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Rodriguez taught fourth grade catechism classes at St. John Bosco Catholic Church’s parish school of religion, said Sarah McDonald, spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of New Orleans. He was relieved of his teaching position following his arrest, she said.
Rodriguez, who does bear resemblance to St. Nick, was trying to show his young student and her friend cell phone photos of himself dressed in full Santa regalia. But the first picture the girl saw was a full-frontal photograph of a nude man, an arrest report said. The girl went home and told her mother.
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