Students react after Miami Northwestern security guard charged with soliciting sex from teen

It seems like it happens with disturbing regularity, a school employee being arrested for allegedly soliciting a student for sex.

This time, it’s a security guard and former girls flag football coach at Miami Northwestern Senior High School who is now behind bars.

“Stay away from Miami Northwestern Senior High School,” the bond court judge said Thursday to Tyresse Jones, along with orders to stay away from and not contact the alleged victim.

Jones kept his head down throughout his court appearance. He is in a world of trouble.

“Offenses against students by authority figures, child abuse, and battery,” said the judge, reading the charges against Jones.

Miami-Dade Schools Police say Jones tried to persuade a student to have sex with him, even offering to pay for her manicures and pedicures. The arrest report contains text messages he allegedly sent to the girl.

Here’s part of those messages, minus the profanity:

“Man I wanna make u my girl… I aint tryna play u or try u I want u bad… Im just being honest… If u doing yo thang with me… making me feel good… yeah Ima send ah lil check if I have to… like getting yo nails and feet done… etc.”

“I think that’s really messed up,” said Makhi Pringle, a student at the school.

Everyone at Northwestern knows about the arrest.

“Yeah, it just shocked me a lot, I can’t lie, it just shocked me a lot because it’s something you don’t really expect, like you’re at school every day just learning, you hear about this news, it’s something not in your mind, you don’t expect that at all,” said sophomore Isiah Boussicot. “It’s out of the blue, just came out of the blue, something random.”

Other students said based on what they had seen, they aren’t surprised by the arrest.

“He was always hugging on the 9th graders and stuff like that,” said Bradley Germain, a sophomore. “All the time, that just got me like, that’s weird, he’s a security guard, he’s a grown man, why would he be doing that?”

None of the girls spoke to NBC6 on camera Thursday, but one young man said the girls he knows seem shaken by what they had heard.

“Why should I still be coming to school or like, what do I do, or what do I say? They like, very confused and like, scared and nervous to come to school and talk about it,” Makhi Pringle said, relating what he has been told by his female classmates.

Miami-Dade Schools Police are hoping that if any other students have been touched or approached inappropriately by Jones, that they report it.