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Updated 01/06/2010 08:26 PM

Queens Principal Sexually Assaulted Students, Investigation Finds

By: Ruschell Boone

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A Queens principal is being fired after an investigation uncovered that he allegedly solicited oral sex from some students and forcibly touched others.

Special Commissioner of Investigation Richard J. Condon released a report Wednesday which states that Quintin Cedeno, a Department of Education principal at the High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture in Queens, solicited oral sex from at least four male students at the school.

The investigation also found that Cedeno inappropriately touched and attempted to touch those four students, along with other male students, on their private areas.

"He actually admitted to just about everything but soliciting sex from the boy. He admitted that he might have touched some boys in the crotch area, admitted he might have hit some boys on the buttocks," Condon said.

Queens Principal Sexually Assaulted Students, Investigation Finds

Moreover, Cedeno is accused of engaging in electronic communications and inappropriate conversations with at least eight male students.

"When we subpoenaed the cell phone records, there were 67 cell phone calls from Cedeno to one of the students and there were 140 or so text messages," Condon said.

All of the incidents allegedly occurred in September 2008.

"I don't think he's that type of person," said one student.

"I heard a lot of things that were inappropriate," said another student.

Condon recommended that Cedeno be fired and that he be ineligible to hold a future position within the Department of Education.

The DOE says it has begun termination proceedings for Cedeno, who began his career in the city as a math teacher at Transit Tech Career and Technical Educational High School in 2003.

Condon has passed the case along to the Queens district attorney’s office.