Doral police arrest charter-school coach and charge him with sex crimes

Doral police announced Tuesday the arrest of a charter-school coach who the agency is accusing of sex crimes involving minors.

Yuniesky Ramirez Martinez, 37, is facing several charges, including two counts of promoting the sexual performance of a child, a count of soliciting a sexual act with a child, and another of an offense against a student by an authority figure, MiamiDade County jail records show. He was at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $40,000 bond as of Tuesday night after a judge ordered him to stay away from the victims.

According to an arrest warrant obtained by NBC Miami, Ramirez Martinez approached two teenage students at Downtown Doral Charter Upper

School on Feb. 14 and told them to “do it” in a TV production room. As one of the teens performed a sexual act on the other, the warrant says, the coach recorded them with his cellphone from the other side of a window.

Citing the warrant, NBC Miami said Ramirez Martinez invited one of the students to perform a sex act. The warrant also says, according to the TV station, that Ramirez Martinez also told that teen that he would tell the other that she had sex with him if she didn’t agree to his advances.

According to Herald news partner CBS Miami, the teen told her principal on Feb. 17 about the situation, and the administrator called Doral police.

“Mr. Ramirez was immediately terminated as an employee with Downtown Doral Charter Upper

School and has NOT been on school grounds since the initial report,” Kim Ortiz, the school’s principal, told NBC Miami in a prepared statement. “DDCUS continues to cooperate with all law enforcement authorities and cannot comment further on the investigation.”