Bronx teacher Edgar Ortiz caught with prostitute keeps $89,307job as he sues city over fine: court docs

Mr. Ortiz really has a big pair of cajones! 

NY DailyNews reports a public school teacher busted when he was caught with a $20 hooker is sparking outrage because he still has his job — and has the gall to fight a city-imposed fine.

This is the second time Edgar Ortiz, 65, kept a sex-related arrest from the city Department of Education, court records show. In 1996, the elementary teacher was hit with charges of sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a minor, which Ortiz claims were later dropped.

He argues in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court that his superiors had no right to punish him for his April 2012 arrest on charges of soliciting a prostitute because it was “completely unrelated to his teaching.”

 “Teachers are not indentured servants subject to school direction and control 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” the randy teacher argued. “Teachers must have a zone in which they may exercise their own prerogatives and activities.”

Ortiz — who gets to keep his $89,307-a-year salary — was collared after cops approached his Toyota minivan parked in a dingy industrial area in the Bronx , says the criminal complaint.

Ortiz — a father of three who lives with a woman, according to a friend — was naked from the waist down on top of the prostitute, and both were “making thrusting motions with their hips,” the complaint said.

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