He also groomed another victim, a 13-year-old girl, by sending her hundreds of text messages for months before meeting her during school and kissing her on the mouth, prosecutors said.He pleaded guilty Monday to charges of enticing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, transporting a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity and traveling with intent to engage in illegal sexual activity with a minor.
Jesus Concepcion, 50, was the orchestra conductor at the KIPP Academy Middle School from 2000 through 2007 after being cuaght in a years-long scheme to groom and abuse the girls.“Jesus Concepcion engaged in a years-long scheme to manipulate, exploit, and sexually abuse young girls at the middle school where he taught,” Manhattan US Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement Tuesday.
“Concepcion abused his position of trust as the students’ teacher to lull them into a false sense of security and to then exploit them for his own sexual gratification.” Concepcion faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years behind bars and a maximum of life imprisonment at his Dec. 11 sentencing.And the teacher previously resigned for “personal reasons” in March 2001 from Bronx Preparatory Charter School where some students described him as a “father figure,”