Ernesto Moncada-Cota, 50, of Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States is a Mexican poet, teacher, playwright, actor, stage director and visual artist. He is the lead for the experimental theater troupe Arcana Collective and a co-founder of the Los Subtítulos, the only bilingual improv troupe in Arizona.
Born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico, Moncada-Cota has taught English in Mexico. In the U.S., he taught Spanish, visual arts, drama, speech and debate for grades seventh to 12th and English as a Second Language to adults.
In 1997, Moncada-Cota graduated from the Universidad del Noreste in Tampico, Mexico with a bachelor’s degree in graphic design. Years later, he moved to Phoenix and in 2008, he started producing and hosting variety shows in the city.
Moncada-Cota teaches Spanish at the secondary campus of the Arizona Conservatory for Arts and Academics in Phoenix. While employed by the school, he allegedly had an inappropriate relationship with a girl, 15, attending the school.
The Mexico City native is the girl’s Spanish teacher. A friend of the girl became aware of the alleged relationship and informed one of their parents, who then contacted the school principal.
When investigators interviewed the girl, she told them that during school hours between September 2023 and December 2023, she and Moncada-Cota performed sex acts on each other in the book closet inside his classroom. The two also exchanged love letters, according to her.
On January 2, 2024, Moncada-Cota was arrested at his apartment in Phoenix. He is being held on a $100,000 cash-only bond.
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He was a known pedophile protected by shawnte orion and Jack evans
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Look out for shawnte orion…he’s a pervert too.
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This man was a pedophile for years in the phx poetry scene. I personally once confronted him about it in public and his protectors came to his aid. I was once on a poetry trip in Mexico and he was there with an underage girl with zits and braces. He was high on cocaine the whole trip, while hunting for young girls…
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If you’ve known this for years and had first hand accounts of this but did not alert the authorities, you are complicit as well.
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Shut the fck up Gonzalez..I had no real proof, you fucking idiot
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Gonzalez you obviously are stupid and can’t read.
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