A veteran assistant principal at a Bronx elementary school has been busted for allegedly fondling two young girls, The Post has learned.
Joseph Ponzo, 59, touched both victims, ages 10 and 11, on their chests — over their shirts — on March 27 inside the halls of PS 106 on St. Raymond’s Avenue in Parkchester, police sources said.
Ponzo was arrested today and charged with sex abuse and acting in a manner injurious to children, sources added.
Ponzo was hired in 1996 as a substitute teacher and was appointed an elementary school teacher at PS 226 in the Bronx in 1997, said an Education Department spokesman.
He became an assistant principal at PS 396, also in the Bronx, in 2000 and then went on to become the assistant principal at PS 106 in 2008.
He earns $117,739 a year.
Ponzo has been reassigned pending the outcome of the police investigation, the spokeswoman added.