A left-wing, vampire-obsessed pedophile allegedly sexually abused two young girls for years at a Harlem school — even filming child porn in classrooms, according to a disturbing new lawsuit.
Miles McNeal, 26, an after-school program teacher whose online alter ego pushed communist propaganda and fetishized vampires, allegedly touched and photographed young students’ naked bodies, had them assume sexual positions, and showed them pictures of the genitalia of other kids while threatening them to stay silent, the victims said in court papers.
Staff and supervisors at PS 185 and its after-school program, Beacon @ 185, apparently ignored requirements that empty classrooms be locked and staffers not be alone with kids, enabling McNeal to engage in the heinous abuse at the West 112th Street school for three years, court papers show.
Administrators did nothing to stop the abuse even after McNeal was found by a PS 185 staffer alone in an empty classroom with a second-grader straddling his lap. McNeal was suspended for one day – and the victim’s father was told his child was at fault.
McNeal was arrested Feb. 1, 2024 and charged with sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl. Police found 52 electronic devices in his possession during the arrest, according to court papers. McNeal pleaded not guilty to the criminal charges, posted bail and the case is pending.
One of the victims is now suicidal and both of the 9-year-olds have been traumatized, their families said.
And their terrified families now fear the pornography will follow the children for the rest of their lives, they said in a Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit filed Jan. 24, which seeks unspecified damages.
“They perfectly well knew that the person who was abusing the kids was taking them into rooms by himself almost every day, and their tacit approval of this behavior is abominable and speaks to the lack of care and vigilance to protect vulnerable children,” the victims lawyer, Richard Emery of Emery, Celli, Brinckerhoff, Abady, Ward & Maazel, told The Post.
McNeal, who lives in Yonkers, continues to advertise “toddler childcare” and other tutoring services on TutorExtra.
He appears infatuated with vampires, and his YouTube account features sexually charged videos about the creepy creatures, including one called, “Enter Carmila! The First Lesbian Vampire!“
His victims and their families contend McNeal was able to pull them from class “with astonishing frequency.”
He would “radio other staff members seeking coverage — so that he could take [the victims] and others out of class to groom and abuse them,” according to the lawsuit.
McNeal is believed to have had multiple victims, the children and their families said in their legal complaint against the city, the Department of Education and the Mosholu Montefiore Community Center, which ran the after-school program.
The abuse was enabled by school staff and leadership, the parents contended.
One staffer — “social-emotional learning” instructor Monica Vargas, who is related to McNeal by marriage — appeared to “facilitate” his depraved behavior, according to the lawsuit.
In her role, Vargas would “interrogate” kids “about particularly traumatic or emotionally charged topics in their lives,” such as the death of a family pet, and then relay the information to McNeal “to facilitate his grooming,” the families contended.
She also once covered for him while he was alone with a victim whose mom had come to get her, according to the lawsuit.
When the child finally ran downstairs, crying, Vargas allegedly told the girl’s mom “that it was wonderful [she] was engaging with her feelings,” according to legal papers.
The mom emailed Beacon @ 185 director Porscha McNeill and PS 185 Principal Andrea Woodhouse-Spence, but they did not report the allegations to the DOE or the NYPD and did nothing to alert parents. The child’s father began calling other families to tell them to allegations. That’s when the second victim was discovered and her parents “immediately” called police, according to the lawsuit.
“They enabled this behavior and are if not as responsible, than more responsible for the abuse,” according to the lawsuit.
Vargas and Porsha McNeill could not be reached for comment.
