Defendant Was Victim’s After-School Teacher
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a former after-school
program teacher has been sentenced to five years in prison and 10 years post-release supervision
for sexually abusing a six-year-old girl in a Bronx classroom.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant sexually abused the child when she sought his
help with her homework in a classroom of a Bronx school. The defendant will now serve time for
this despicable crime which has left the girl traumatized.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Channing Parker, 23, of the Bronx, was sentenced
today by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Ralph Fabrizio to five years in prison and 10 years post release supervision. The defendant will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release.
The judge also signed a final order of protection for the victim. The defendant pleaded guilty to
first-degree Sexual Abuse on November 29, 2018.
According to the investigation, on or about October 6, 2016 to November 16, 2016, the
defendant, an employee at Kids Creative, a nonprofit group that organizes after-school programs
in New York City, touched the child’s private parts in Archer Elementary School. Months later in
2017, the victim saw a news report about sexual abuse and told her eight-year-old sister what had
happened to her. The victim’s sister told their mother, who then reported it to the school. The school
notified the authorities and the victim was brought to the Bronx Child Advocacy Center.
Parker was arrested while he was already incarcerated for sexual abuse incidents he
committed at the Ideal School of Manhattan. He was sentenced in Manhattan to 20 years in prison
on December 18, 2018 for sexually abusing two children at an after-school program.
District Attorney Clark thanked the Bronx Child Advocacy Center, the Bronx Child Abuse
Squad, and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office for their cooperation and assistance with this
prosecution.
