Ex-NYC prosecutor teaching at Catholic school charged with raping 13-year-old girl

A former city ꦆprosecutor turned religious school te🏅acher has been charged with raping a 13 year-old girl, The Post has learned.

Daniel Haines, ⛦39, an ex-Bronx and Brooklyn assistant district attorney who taught at Mt. Carmel-Holy Rosary in East Harlem, is also accused of taking cell phone videos of their sexual contact, and exchanging “multiple photos and videos of a sexual nature” via email with her, according to a criminal complaint filed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

The al👍leged abuse took place “on multiple occas🥃ions” between April 18, 2022 and April 7, 2023, when the victim was in 7th and 8th grade, the complaint states.

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He was arrested on May 17.

A partially redacted address cited in the complainꦡt indicates the 𝓀abuse occurred at Mt. Carmel, where Haines was a teacher at the time. 

The complaint alleges one act of forcible rape occurre𒁏d against a desk.

Mt. Carmel principal Trista Rivera sent an email to parents saying they can call the Manhattan DA’s child abuse bureau at 212-335-4300 if their children “had any𒅌 type of contact” with Haines. 

“The school has been and will continue to ꧅cooperate fully with the investigation into this allegation,” Joseph🐲 Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, told The Post.

Rivera and Zwilling did not explain why Hain𓂃es left Mt. Carmel, or confirm that the 13-year-old victim was a student at the school, causing some confusion and worry among parents.

Haines worked in the Bronx D꧟A’s office from 2009 to 2019, a spokesman said. 

He prosecuted and in the rackets bureau.

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He the𝓡n briefly worked at the Brooklyn DA’s office. Spokesman Oren Yaniv refused to say why he left. His last city salary was $105,000.

After that, Haines took a job ൲at Mt. Carmel, w📖here .

He stayed until the end of the 2022-23 school y🍌ear. 

One Mt. Carmel parent t🥃old The Post that she complained about Haines, her child’s 6th and 7th grade English te🐭acher.

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“I thought he was terrible but the principal either ignored me or told me he cares about the kids,” she said. “Then he left the school, but he would always pop up. It’s just weird.” 

Starting in September of 2023, Haines joined the Heschel School, a Jewish day academy on the Upper West Side, where he taught middle grades, and coached ba🅰sketbal𝕴l and mock trial.

In a recent letter to parents, head of school Ariela Dubler and board president Ben Archibald said, “All of the alleged misconduct occurred prior to Daniel’s arrival at Heschel. We have no knowledge of any allegations of criminal or inappropriate conduct within the Heschel community.” 

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Haines was hired after reference and criminal background checks, the letter says. When the school learned of his arrest, “We placed him on leave and terminated his access to our systems and buildings.”

Haines pleaded not guilty🐲 and was released on $350,000 cash bail, records show.

His Legal Aid attorney did r♌eturn a call for comment.