Posts Tagged ‘Robert Dale Esparza Jr’

When Parents Bully Teachers Everyone Loses Out

May 25, 2012

One can’t expect children to stop bullying in the playground when their own parents are guilty of bullying of the worst kind.

Take this awful case where a parent took out his frustraction at his child’s assistant principal by setting up a fake profile of him on a pornographic website:

A disgruntled Higley parent who wanted to get back at his son’s assistant principal has been convicted of two felonies after starting a fake profile on a pornographic website under the assistant principal’s name.

Robert Dale Esparza Jr., 34, was upset that his then 13-year-old son had his iPod confiscated at Gateway Pointe Elementary School last year, and blamed Assistant Principal Frank Hendricsen.

Hendricsen, who is now the school’s interim principal in the Higley Unified School District, denied taking the iPod, which was never found, said Dennis Ogorchock, a detective with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Computer Crimes Unit, who investigated the case.

According to Ogorchock, Esparza retaliated for the lost iPod by starting a fake profile on a pornographic website under Hendricsen’s name in May 2011. The profile used photos from the school website, including pictures of Hendricsen’s wife.

Esparza posted lewd body photos supposedly of Hendricsen and attached more than 20 pornographic videos to the profile, including sex videos of principals spanking school girls.

Esparza also chatted on the site under Hendricsen’s name, and started an e-mail address under Hendricsen’s name. Esparza’s goal was to be active on the site so when someone searched online for Hendricsen’s name, the porn site would come up, Ogorchock said.