Dad 'choked 4-year-old son to death after he stumbled in on him murdering boy's mother'

A dad choked his four-year-old son to death after he stumbled in on him murdering the boy's mother .

Isaac Infante, 23, strangled Felicia Barahona, 36, with an electric cord in the bathroom of her New York apartment on December 22.He then strangled his young son, Miguel Barahona, after the boy walked in on the crime scene.

Infante, who was a high school pupil when he began a relationship with his teacher Barahona, then placed the child's body face down in the bathtub.The bodies of the mother and son were discovered by the superintendent at the apartment in Hamilton Heights, in Harlem, on Monday, police said.

Infante, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was arrested and confessed to the killings, CBS New York reported.

He has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and remanded in custody.Infante allegedly told police he “didn’t like the way she was raising the child” — which included dressing him in feminine looking clothing, CBS2 reported.

He also claimed Barahona was “interfering” in his relationship with his new girlfriend and confessed that he was “tired of paying child support for the kid.”

Barahona was sacked after a 2012 report by investigators at the Bronx school where she taught found that she began a sexual relationship with Infante when he was 18.

The report said she believed she and Infante would get married before their relationship ended.

Mirror UK