Man Kills Child and Child's Mother Because He Didn't Want To Pay Child Support

He went from being a high school lover to cold-blooded killer.

A former Bronx student who got his teacher pregnant in 2011 confessed Tuesday to killing her and the 4-year-old he fathered with her because he resented having to pay child support, authorities said.

Isaac Infante, 23, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder after he admitted to the murder of his former lover, Felicia Barahona, 36, and his son Miguel inside their Harlem apartment, sources said.

Infante, who lived in Bethlehem, Pa., told police she was messing things up with his new love interest and that he had “issues” with the way Barahona was raising their son, the sources said.
Barahona made headlines when she gave birth to Miguel in August 2012 and was fired by the Department of Education over her affair with Infante.

Barahona was found with an electrical cord wrapped around her neck in the living room of her apartment on W. 153rd St. near Riverside Drive on Monday morning. Little Miguel’s body was found in the bathtub.

The city medical examiner said Tuesday that Barahona was strangled with a ligature and that Miguel was choked to death. Both deaths were ruled homicides.

“He knows what he did. ... You killed your own son who’s 4,” said Barahona’s brother, Jaime Bravo, 29. “There’s not much I can say beyond that. You killed your own son!”

Although the murder of his sister and nephew left him heartbroken, Bravo said the ME’s ruling and Infante’s arrest was a relief because he was worried that the incident could have been a murder-suicide.

“At least we can move forward with it,” he said. “It’s a really dark silver lining, but I’m definitely relieved someone got caught very early.”
Infante was grilled by cops Tuesday at the 30th Precinct stationhouse before police charged him with both murders.

Dressed in a black leather jacket, he looked down as police led him from the precinct, staying silent and expressionless as reporters shouted questions in English and Spanish.

Barahona was discovered when the building’s super called 911 after a resident reported a foul odor coming from the apartment, police said.

The super said he last saw Barahona alive last Wednesday.

Barahona was a science teacher at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx when she had a four-month affair with Infante, who was in her class at the time.

The relationship began on his 18th birthday in the fall of 2011, according to the city’s special commissioner of investigation, which released a report on the relationship in 2013.

The couple hooked up about five times a week, the report said.

When the student asked if he could use condoms, she told him she “didn’t like” them and “not to worry,” the report added.

The investigation into the affair began in February 2012 when a woman told authorities that Infante had confided to her about it. He told the woman that he had barely been able to eat or sleep because of the relationship for weeks.

Infante later told investigators that the two had become Facebook friends a few days before Halloween. On their first date, they went to Times Square with Barahona’s daughter.

Barahona became pregnant in November 2011. Infante moved in with her two months later. Their relationship soured because Infante wanted to take the baby to visit relatives and Barahona refused to allow it.

They broke up after Barahona’s mother caught Infante drinking rum in her apartment and argued with him.

Barahona forced him to move out and later blocked him from her Facebook page. She confessed the affair to investigators — saying she was in love with the teen.

Bravo said he thought the breakup was because she wanted to be more independent.

“He’s a 20-year-old guy (at the time),” he said. “There’s no way you’re going to take the reins on that so I think that was part of the fallout. She would live her life, and he would either join along with her or go away.”

Barahona was an Afghanistan war vet who served with the U.S. Coast Guard. She was also studying at John Jay College.

“It’s shocking to me,” a former Coast Guard colleague, who asked not to be named, said of her death. “She was a very conscientious, quiet person, highly educated. She was a nice lady, private, and did her job.”