A special education teacher at an intermediate school in New Jersey was arrested for an alleged sexual relationship with a student, according to authorities. 43-year-old Allison Havemann-Niedrach at Freehold Intermediate School was charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced.

According to theNew York Post, she was arrested earlier this week after an investigation revealed that she allegedly began sexually abusing her student earlier this year. However, authorities did not say how the conduct came to light or how many times she had assaulted the student. The age of the alleged victim has also not been revealed, but grades six through eight attend Freehold Intermediate School.

She is currently being held at the Monmouth County jail in Freehold Township, pending a first appearance and detention hearing. A hearing will be conducted to determine whether she will continue to be detained while awaiting trial. 

The prosecutor’s office asked members of the public to provide more information about her activities. ”Anyone with information about Havemann-Niedrach’s activities is being urged to contact MCPO Detective Dawn Correia at 800-533-7443,” the release read. 

As per her LinkedIn profile, Havemann-Niedrach has been a special education teacher at Freehold Intermediate School since March 2022. She has been a teacher or a substitute teacher at several schools dating back to 2008, according to her profile.

The teacher describes herself as: “Passionate, results-driven, and sincere educator. Poised and competent and thrives in performance-driven environments. Demonstrated history of a ‘do what it takes’ work ethic and truly differentiated instruction.”

After the arrest, Asia Michael, the superintendent of the Freehold Borough School District sent an email to staff and parents that read, ”We have been informed that a former staff member has been arrested on allegations of third-degree aggravated sexual assault and inappropriate sexual conduct with a minor. 

Please be assured that our district has been fully cooperative with the prosecutor’s office since the outset of this investigation. The safety and well-being of our students and staff have been our top priority, and we took immediate measures to ensure their protection.”

The teacher’s attorney, meanwhile, said in a statement that she ”maintains her innocence” and refused to comment further. 

 

An elementary school teacher in the United States is under investigation for allegedly filming sexually explicit videos of herself inside her classroom and school bathroom. Citing local media reports, the New York Post reported that the woman, who resigned in February for undisclosed reasons, was a music teacher at Gray Elementary in Lamar Consolidated Independent School District (LCISD) in Texas. For now, the teacher, whose name hasn’t been disclosed, has not been charged with a crime. But the school district has opened an investigation after community activists called out her behaviour at a press conference. 

The school said it wasn’t aware of the videos until Wednesday when the censored clips of the teacher began to surface online. In one of the videos which appears to be from inside the classroom, the teacher was seen flashing her breasts and buttocks to a camera, the Post reported. Another video also allegedly showed her stripping down similarly in a school bathroom. 

“It was a poor judgment on my part. I would never do it again,” the teacher told a local media outlet in an interview. She claimed she shot the videos on a Sunday when she had stopped by the school to pick something up or in a bathroom when nobody was on campus. She also said that she only shared the clip with her former boyfriend, with whom she recently had a nasty breakup. 

The teacher has filed a police report for possible revenge porn, according to the outlet. “I’ve never sent this out to thousands of men. Like, I’m not that type of person,” she said, adding, “This was just a relationship, a private matter, and he released it.”

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Meanwhile, the school opened an investigation into the matter after local community activists called out her behaviour. Speaking at a press conference this week, one activist described the video in vivid detail, saying the clip shows her “stripping down naked, bending over and showing you everything on the video and all you could see was cellulite and pubic hair.”

“This woman obviously had lost her damn mind. She needs psychotropic medication. She pulls out her breasts and she’s juggling them – looks like she’s about to fall over. Then she bends over and pulls down her panties,” the activist added. He also said that the teacher should never be allowed around children again. 

The Lamar Consolidated Independent School District said it was the teacher’s first year with the district.