Palermo teacher investigated for filming pupils already had conviction for manslaughter
A sixth-grade teacher at Granaderos de San Martín school was removed from her post following accusations of filming her pupils. She had previous convictions relating to the death of her daughter.
Palermo teacher accused of filming pupils had previously been convicted of her baby's death
The Education Ministry of the City of Buenos Aires and the judiciary are investigating a sixth-grade teacher at Granaderos de San Martín school, located on Avenida del Libertador and Olleros Street in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Palermo. The teacher, identified as Roxana Carolina Cayo (53), was accused of filming her pupils with a mobile telephone and of requesting personal data from them through exercises assigned in class, according to infobae.com on the basis of accounts from members of the school community.
According to what the students themselves told their parents, Cayo filmed her pupils during lessons and those who refused were prevented from going out to break time. Additionally, on some occasions she had asked them for their national ID number and their home address. The pupils also recalled a school event at which a person identified as the teacher's partner presented themselves, who began filming the children.
In response to these accounts, the school referred the matter to the Buenos Aires Education Ministry. The first measure adopted was to remove Cayo from her post, at least until the investigation concludes, according to official sources. "There is an investigation under way and an administrative inquiry has been opened," said officials from the education department, who also confirmed that a report was filed with the judiciary.
Criminal history that the education system did not block
This is not Cayo's first confrontation with the law. In 2014 she was arrested at a property on Iglesias Street at number 1100, in the municipality of Florencio Varela in Buenos Aires province, after remaining a fugitive for four years. The accusation against her was serious: in 2010 she had left her newborn daughter alone with her younger siblings whilst she went to a nightclub in the Buenos Aires town of Lamadrid. The baby, who was six months old, was left without adult supervision for eight hours, fell out of bed and died as a result of the impact. The case was investigated by UFI 5 of Olavarría, headed by prosecutor Martín Pizzolo.
The trial judge accused Cayo of the offence of intentional homicide, a classification that, had it been upheld, would have prevented her from re-entering the education system in accordance with current regulations. However, the Court of Cassation changed the classification to manslaughter, which opened the legal door to her reintegration as a teacher.
"Cayo was reincorporated into the education system in August 2026 once she had completed five years of administrative suspension as a result of a conviction for manslaughter," the Education Ministry of the City communicated to infobae.com. The department clarified that the law in force distinguishes between convictions for intentional offences—which permanently disqualify the exercise of teaching—and convictions for negligent offences, which allow reincorporation once the sentence and the five years of administrative suspension have been served.
Parents and regulations that the Ministry promises to review
The parents of pupils in Palermo were unaware of these antecedents until recently. One of them carried out a search for information about the teacher and shared the results in a WhatsApp group, which sparked a scandal in the school community.
The Buenos Aires Education Ministry confirmed that, in addition to removing Cayo from her post, "it will immediately initiate a process of amendment of the regulatory decree of the law in force," with the aim of preventing similar situations in the future.
According to official records, Cayo is registered as an employee of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires and provided services in various public organisations in Buenos Aires. She also worked for an evangelical church in the town of Villa Martelli and for a religious school in the Almagro neighbourhood. The teacher is a qualified lawyer.
Source: Google News AR — Buenos Aires