Embattled Albuquerque schools chief to learn fate

Valentino says he knew nothing of the charges or Martinez’s failure to complete a background check.

A Denver judge issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for a former New Mexico school administrator who faces child sex abuse charges in Colorado and violated terms of his bail when he left the state.

Denver Public Schools has responded to the child sex abuse allegations of one of its former principals who was arrested on Wednesday.

Martinez is being held without bond in the Denver Detention Center and will appear in court Thursday morning at 9 a.m. for a hearing on a motion to revoke his bond.

According to the Albuquerque Journal, the 2013 charge involves four counts of child sexual assault of victims ages 8 and 13 and the arrest this year involves a separate felony domestic incident with a man described in court records as intimately involved with Martinez.

The chief financial officer for New Mexico’s largest school district has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the district and the head of the state’s Public Education Department.

Meanwhile, the board of the Albuquerque Public Schools is scheduled Thursday to vote on Valentino’s fate. He went on to work for an education publisher before arriving to Albuquerque. Not only that but the fact that Martinez was able to stay with the district for several months without ever having to complete a background check. The school board in Albuquerque will be voting this week on an agenda item as to whether or not Valentino will be fired. The debate stems from the hiring of deputy superintendent Jason Martinez who is now in custody, charged with child molestation in Colorado. One of the youngsters told police that “Jay [Martinez] has been touching individuals”, as per a sworn statement cited to a limited extent by NBC.

She stated Denver authorities ed Martinez’s lawyer, Michael Meaux, to rearrange his give up, and in addition alerted Albuquerque police. In any case, she said there’s been no word regarding whether Martinez will turn himself in today. He was not required to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet after his 2013 arrest, a standard practice prior to trial. He said his office planned to investigate Martinez’s hire and whether the district conducted necessary criminal background checks on other employees, but stopped short of saying if his office would seek criminal charges.

No phone listing could be found for Martinez, and a message seeking comment from his attorney, Michael Meaux, was not immediately returned.