An assistant principal at a New Haven, Connecticut high school is facing four charges after a student told police he sexually assaulted her twice inside his office, on consecutive school days, during school hours. Daniel Bonet-Ojeda is charged with two counts of second-degree sexual assault and two counts of fourth-degree sexual assault. He turned himself in Monday, the day the warrant was issued, and his bond was set at $250,000.
According to police, the case began on May 22, 2026, when the Connecticut Department of Children and Families notified authorities of an allegation. Investigators built their case over the following months, and detectives say surveillance video, witness statements, and staff statements corroborated the student’s account, including her report that Bonet-Ojeda arranged to be alone with her in his office.
The story lands differently for anyone who has ever watched their kid walk through a school door, whether that’s here in the Suncoast’s Gulf Coast communities or a thousand miles north in Connecticut. Schools run on one-on-one conversations between staff and students; that’s not the problem. The problem is what happens when the supervision system fails and a student’s only protection is their own willingness to speak up. In this case, the student did. What policies does your child’s school have in place to protect that student before they ever have to?
