Man Who Fathered Teacher's Son Charged With Murder
On Tuesday, the New York Police Department announced that 23-year-old Isaac Duran Infante had been charged with two first-degree murder counts after allegedly killing his former high school teacher, Felicia Barahona, and the son they had together.
36-year-old Barahona was found strangled to death with an electrical cord in her apartment in Manhattan on Monday by the apartment building's superintendent, while four-year-old Miguel was found dead and floating face-down in a bathtub. It's believed both had been dead for three to four days.
Then a science teacher at a Bronx high school, Barahona made headlines in 2013 when her sexual relationship with Duran Infante, then a student at her high school, was discovered by the media. The relationship began when Duran Infante was either 17 or 18, according to the New York Times, leading to Barahona's pregnancy in 2012 and her dismissal from her teaching position later that year.
Barahona and Infante reportedly ended their relationship in early 2012, before the birth of their son Miguel, but remained in contact over the years - and argued often over custody issues, co-parenting, and child support payments, Barahona's half-brother Jaime Bravo told the Times.
According to CBS2, Infante confessed to the murders to authorities, saying that he "didn’t like the way [Barahona] was raising the child," that Barahona was "interfering" with his relationship with his new girlfriend, and that he was "tired of paying child support for the kid." It's as yet unknown if Infante has retained an attorney or if an amount has been set for his bail.
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