A former gym teacher and girls’ basketball coach from the Bronx is facing serious allegations after prosecutors indicted him for allegedly taking a 14-year-old student to a motel and assaulting her following a basketball game.
Jayvone Johnson, 35, has been charged with multiple offenses, including second-degree rape and sexual abuse, following accusations that he assaulted a teenage girl who was once on the basketball team he coached. This was announced in a statement by Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark.
Johnson’s arrest occurred in December, but the alleged crime happened roughly a year earlier. At that time, he was employed as a “physical education specialist” and basketball coach at Icahn Charter School 2, located in the Van Nest area, according to his LinkedIn profile.
The incident purportedly took place on December 23, 2024. Prosecutors claim Johnson approached the young athlete after a game at the Bronx charter school, convincing her to accompany him to the JetSet Motel situated near Third Avenue and East 184th Street. It was there that he allegedly assaulted her.
During his tenure at the school, Johnson also held the role of program director for the New York Junior Tennis & Learning after-school initiative, a position he maintained until March 2024.
Johnson held both positions at the charter school while also serving as the program director of the after-school New York Junior Tennis & Learning program, which he oversaw through March 2024.
The alleged creep boasted on his LinkedIn profile how teaching middle schoolers taught him “about patience and engaging the minds of the youth,” whom he aspired to help “get recruited at colleges of all types to pursue their dreams.”
“I believe that this will not only be a job to me but a passion. I want to recruit kids to places where I believe they may fit in and gain a wonderful experience,” Johnson wrote on his profile.
The Icahn Charter School 2 previously declined to comment on Johnson’s arrest, but said that he “is no longer employed by the school.”
“This defendant allegedly brought the teenage girl to a motel. There he allegedly raped the victim. As a basketball coach this defendant had the trust of school leaders, parents and students. In this instance instead of honoring that trust, he broke it,” Clark said in a statement.
Johnson is due back in court on April 21.
