The Manhattan man charged in the murder of his ex-teacher and their 4-year-old love child told cops that she’d cut short a visit with his son and left him weeping inside a McDonald’s, court papers show.
Isaac Duran Infante, 23, said he got into an argument with Felicia Barahona, 36, on Nov. 27 at the fast-food joint during a court-ordered visit with Miguel.
“The kid didn’t have a haircut,” he griped to cops, according to court papers. “He was wearing the worst clothes he has. Felicia doesn’t buy nice clothes for him. She does that on purpose to embarrass me.”
When he told her he’d give Miguel a haircut, Barahona allegedly snatched up their son and stormed out. “I saw Felicia pull my son by the arm and drag him across the floor,” he allegedly told police. “I stood there crying.”
Prosecutors say Infante strangled his former DeWitt Clinton High School science teacher, who lost her job over their affair, inside her Harlem apartment.
Initially, he claimed he hadn’t seen his baby mama or son since Dec. 11, but later confessed to the Dec. 22 double slaying.
He pleaded not guilty Tuesday to four counts of first- and second-degree murder at his arraignment in Manhattan Supreme Court.
He allegedly told investigators Barahona had “ruined” his life and he could no longer afford child support because his new girlfriend was pregnant, sources told The Post.
Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg said Infante admitted taking an electrical cord and, in front of Miguel, “wrapping it around his ex-girlfriend’s neck until she turned blue, and the life drained from her body.”
Minutes later, he took a computer cable into the bathroom, where Miguel was weeping for his mother, and strangled him, Blumberg said.
Barahona allegedly seduced Infante when he was her 17-year-old student, and became pregnant.
In 2013, she was fired when the school learned of the relationship.
Infante faces life in prison.