By JOE HUTCHISON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Published: 14:28 GMT, 6 February 2025 | Updated: 14:32 GMT, 6 February 2025

A Florida school worker has been suspended from her post pending a police investigation after allegations of sexual offenses involving her and a student. 

Genesis Zayas, 23, is accused of engaging in sexual misconduct with a student of Island Coast High School in Cape Coral, Florida. 

Zayas was arrested on Tuesday on two counts of sexual offenses, engaging in lewd conduct with a student. 

The Lee County School District has since confirmed that she was suspended from her role as instructional support at the school. 

She was booked on Tuesday and her bond was set at $50,000 on Wednesday morning at her first court appearance, according to WINK News. After paying the bond, she was released.

In a statement, the school district said: ‘The School District does not tolerate the alleged behavior. 

‘The employee has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation. 

‘Upon its conclusion, appropriate actions will be taken.’

Genesis Zayas, 23, is accused of engaging in sexual misconduct with a student of Island Coast High School in Cape Coral, Florida

WINK News also obtained an email from the school district that they distributed to local parents. 

In it, they said: ‘You are receiving this important message in compliance with Florida Statute 1012.797, Parental Notification of Arrests of Employees. 

‘I must inform you that Ms. Genesis Zayas, Instructional Support, Island Coast High School, was arrested on 02/04/2025 for the following:

‘Please know that The School District of Lee County and law enforcement will handle this matter most appropriately.’

It comes after a New Jersey elementary school teacher was accused of sexually assaulting one of her students for years and having his child. 

Laura Caron, 34, a fifth-grade teacher, met her alleged victim when she taught him and his brother at Middle Township Elementary School #2. 

The parents of the victim said the family had became friends with Caron over the years and soon allowed both their sons as well as their daughter to live with her for one to two nights a week. 

But sometime in 2016 – when the victim was 11 – the trio moved in to her Cape May Court House. The crimes allegedly began in the same year and lasted until 2020.

The Lee County School District has since confirmed that she was suspended from her role as instructional support at the school, seen here

The Lee County School District has since confirmed that she was suspended from her role as instructional support at the school, seen here

Officials claim that their baby was born when the victim himself was 13 years old and Caron was 28 years old in 2019. 

Similarly, Texas art teacher Jennifer Massey was arrested last October after cops found her engaging in ‘sexual conduct’ in a home that was under construction. 

She was arrested and charged with having an improper relationship between an educator and a student, according to the Comal County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies were called after reports came in of a suspicious person in a home that was under construction on Citadel Point in Garden Ridge.  

When they arrived, they found Massey and a ‘male juvenile.’ The art teacher was then arrested and taken to Comal County Jail.

The sheriff’s office told DailyMail.com at the time that Massey posted the $50,000 bail and was released on October 4. 

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