School Dean Pleads Guilty to Sex With Student

By LAURA D’ANGELO & REBECA IBARRA

A former New York City high school dean accused of having sex with an underage student changed his plea to guilty in a Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday.

Malik Taylor, 32, was accused of having sex with four students and admitted to knowing one of them was 16 at the time they had relations – one year below the legal age of consent in New York.

The married father-of-two sat handcuffed and downcast as Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles H. Solomon charged him with rape in the third degree and endangerment of child welfare.

Taylor resigned from his role as dean and community assistant for the Business of Sports School in Manhattan after a 2013 report by Special Commissioner nike zoom hyperrev of Investigation Richard J. Condon accused him of having sex with four students and sexually harassing at least four others.

According to the report, Taylor admitted to engaging in unprotected sex with female students whose ages ranged from 16 to 19. The sexual encounters took place in the back of his car, motels in Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx, and even in two of the school’s classrooms.

Taylor also admitted to approaching four other students with lewd come-ons, remarking on the size of their breasts and buttocks. A 17-year-old student told investigators that Taylor’s lecherous comments made her feel “disgusted and not safe.”

Phone records show Taylor used a cellphone registered to his wife to exchange over 6,000 text messages with one of the students during a three-month period in 2013 and repeatedly contacted three others.

Taylor will be sentenced on April 15 and faces 90 days in jail and 10 years probation. He was dismissed from his position and barred from ever taking a job in the school system.