Pasquale Bernaldo-Antonelli, 42, and Leonardo Perez, 18, live next door to each other in Garfield.
Bernaldo-Antonelli taught at Maugham Elementary School in the Tenafly school district.
He has been suspended from his job pending the outcome of the investigation.
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