18/05/2020
HE DIDN’T WANT TO CRY WHILE EATING
So, he took his student to his apartment to say goodbye 🙄
What was supposed to be a memorable farewell to a beloved teacher turned out to be a traumatizing experience for a soon-to-be High School graduate in 2015.
It was an emotional last week of her high school years, and she had to say goodbye to many friends and teachers… including Mr. Augusto Contreras, her drama teacher.
Mr. Contreras was particularly kind to her... he knew how to make students feel special. On that fateful evening he went to her home to say goodbye. He asked her mom for permission to take her daughter to go get whataburger.
They were supposed to come back and hangout outside her home where they would be joined by other students.
He never brought her back.
HIS FAMOUS APARTMENT
Even though Mr. Contreras was very popular among his students, and had a special skill to charm parents, rumors were circulating in the small Valley View community.
It was an open secret that he would often take students to his apartment… after hours. He seemed to be more interested in good looking girls… looking for any excuse to hold their hands and have physical contact.
A former student said Mr. Contreras sometimes allowed them to drink alcohol when they were with him.
When the father got home and found out the young teacher had taken his daughter and never returned, he immediately suspected he had taken her to the man’s apartment… he was right.
The father & mother of the girl went to the area where they knew he lived and started looking for his car. When they found it, they knocked on several doors in the building until they found them.
The father dragged the young teacher out of the apartment and was about to beat him up, but his wife stopped him… he had so much rage that she thought it would turn into a tragedy.
Mr. Contreras claimed he wanted a more intimate place to say goodbye, because he didn’t want to cry while eating… he was very emotional too, and seemed terrified.
The father vowed to press charges, but later they opted for silence. After all, they had arrived on time, before anything worse happened… if it had, Mr. Contreras might not have survived the night.
They knew Mr. Contreras was loved by many, and the naive high school girl was likely to be blamed in the small Mexican-American community. It wasn’t worth the embarrassment of the scandal.
Mr. Contreras also claimed they were waiting for other classmates. The couple and their daughter waited for a long time nearby to see if it was true, but no one showed up.
The naive high school girl finally realized she was lied to by a teacher she trusted and respected.
OTHER INCIDENTS, NO ALLEGATIONS
According to a source, during a trip to New York, which Mr. Contreras chaperoned, a female student got so drunk that she vomited… Mr. Contreras was kind enough to take her to her room and spend the night with her to “take care of her.”
Her classmates were shocked, but other than whispers, no one complained. However, the rumor of a drunk female student and a young male teacher spending the night together in a hotel room, alone, spread as soon as they got back.
MOVING ON: NO PASA NADA
Mr. Augusto Contreras left Valley View ISD at the end of that school year. He claimed he wanted to dedicate his full attention to his art studio, Creative Arts Studio where he gives children and teenagers music and acting classes… with no school administrators or fellow teachers to gossip.
It’s unclear if the numerous rumors about Mr. Contreras’s unusually-intimate relationship with his students played any part in his departure.
The family of the girl broke their friendship with Mr. Contreras, but he fulfilled his pledge to them to stay away from their daughter.
Augusto Contreras is now running for Commissioner of the City of Hidalgo Texas.
We reached out to Mr. Contreras and he denied ever inviting students to his apartment... he also denied ever doing drugs
(a video is circulating online where a man can be seen snorting an unknown substance off a table; the author of the video said it’s him).
He blocked a representative of JusticeRGV before she could ask about other facts in the story.