Tat’s no way to act as a mom
Teacher leaves own kids to get ink, drink
A BROOKLYN middle school teacher left her three children home alone “for hours” so she could get tatted up and enjoy a booze-fueled night with her husband, authorities said.
Laura Aguero-Dupla, 35, of Sunset Park, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child for leaving her children without any supervision Wednesday night so she could go out drinking, a police source said.
But first, she went to get a tattoo finished at a Lower East Side shop, she admitted to police.
The avid bicyclist has an intricate sleeve tattoo running down her left arm, a photo on her Facebook page shows. She also has ink around her ankles.
Aguero-Dupla’s night fell apart after she got into a fight with her husband, Alfredo Bobe, during their booze binge at a Lower East Side bar.
Bobe, 41, stormed off and went home, but didn’t have the keys to get inside, so he punched out a glass panel on the front door, police sources said.
Neighbors called 911 around 2 a.m. Thursday complaining of hearing a loud noise.
When cops arrived, Bobe was inside the apartment, the sources said. Aguero-Dupla was found pacing outside the building.
The two were arrested after cops learned that their kids — the youngest 4, the oldest 12 — were left unsupervised all night. The pair was arraigned early Friday and released on their own recognizance.
The Middle School 88 educator cried as cops put her in handcuffs, one witness said.
“I heard yelling, ‘ Why?’ ” said neighbor Ruby Gonzalez, 39, who was woken up by the commotion. “She was yelling, ‘Why me?’ You could tell that she had been crying.”
Bobe was charged with criminal mischief and acting in a manner injurious to a child. It was not either spouse’s first runin with the law. In 2011, Aguero-Dupla was charged with criminal mischief after getting into a road rage incident with a motorist on Third Ave. in Gowanus.
During the argument, she “banged against” the motorist’s vehicle and cursed at the driver before ramming the bike into the vehicle’s door, denting it.
She also punched the motorist repeatedly, according to court documents. The case was dismissed af- ter she completed a conflict-resolution course at Red Hook Community Court, officials said. Her husband has also been cuffed twice before, including once for assault in 2003, court records show.
A Department of Education spokeswoman said Aguero-Dupla, a city teacher since 2004 who makes $78,000 a year, was pulled from her classroom Thursday.
The teacher has already run afoul of the school system, officials said. In 2012, she had a fight with a school vendor outside Public School 157 in Clinton Hill, according to school officials and her Facebook page.