Teacher Sues City Over Firing For Dating Teen Model

A tenured second grade school teacher in Queens is suing to win her job back after being fired because her boyfriend/baby daddy was a high school student at one point in their relationship.

Joshua Walter, 19, whose pretty face can be seen most recently in ads and commercials for Hugo Boss, met his lover Gina Salamino, age 37, when he was just 12. But their passion wasn't ignited until two years ago, when they reconnected at a party. According to the Daily News exclusive, "that flirty encounter led to dates at the movies, hundreds of phone calls, nights at her Howard Beach apartment and sex."

Now they live together and have a child! Salamino insists she didn't know he was enrolled in high school when their affair began; Walter's modeling career had taken off to the point where he rarely attended class. But a November 2006 tip that Salamino was making out with a young male prompted a Department of Education investigation. Later, a hearing officer ordered Salamino dismissed for "sexual misconduct." Her lawyer calls the ruling "irrational and not based on adequate or substantial evidence in the record."

When confronted about the affair, Walter reportedly declared, "I'm tapping that ass and there's nothing you can do about it." In a written statement, he described Salamino as "my shorty." And in another YouTube video (there are lots!) the hunk reveals, "I just like to do what regular guys like to do. I like to eat, I like to watch sports, play sports, know what I mean? Chill with my girlfriend, know what I mean?"

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By John Del Signore in News on November 25, 2008 11:35 AM

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NannyState

They even rented Harold And Maude together. What a disturbing pair.

MEWMEWZIQ

omg i feel soooo bad for her... he should be helping her thru this!!! go to the school personally to tell people it's all his fault, that she should have never lost her job because of him! selfish male model brat!! i fckin hate guys like that! i root for the teacher!!

7train

OMG! #14, that's EXACTLY what I thought as I looked at her picture.....

Amanda Harletsch

the look on her face is sweet!

nohateparade

first he semen cookbook story and now this? tasteless, tasteless news.

robingee

Carlos D?

Weird, I was thinking how you never see a hot guy with an ugly girl (but you see hot girls with plain guys all the time).

moominpapa

She's totally a beard. It's the only rational explanation.

tsol

"she is no beast"

Right- I can't think of any beasts with a potato nose, beady eyes, absolutely no lips (scary!), a double chin, and blotchy skin.

peanut100

honk!!!!!!!!

JenChungsBaby

"I just like to do what regular 19-year-old male models do -- hang out with hideous old cougars. That's right, I'm tapping that ass!"

abc

im sure he throws a bag over her head.

r1b2

OMG, in my shock over her stunning visage I completely overlooked that they have a kid! OMFG. How does this happen on my planet?

JRod5417

This couple is so unlikely, it is truly amazing. How can he be a model and not be shallow? She must be a voodoo priestess indeed.

blkiznewprez

she is feeding him crazy pills. she must be a coke dealer. she's a voodoo priestess.

impossible. i am waiting for the young hot female models to take this boy away from this crazy ass witch and their illegitimate child.

Noodle Fan

While she does not look "good" or any similar adjective, she also is nowhere near as ugly as Shrek or whatever else you people can magick up. She looks like a less than average woman of her age. Let us not blow shit out of proportion. She is not a beast.

That said... he can do better.

dglass

i'd hit it.

Clarice City

Wow...she looks just like Shrek.

babyhitler

So sad. Only 19 and he already has glaucoma.

grove

conseting "adults" aside, the kicker in this story is that they had a kid, being a father at 19...the pursuit of happiness...haha ok!

zpk

What ever happened to "the pursuit of happiness"? People should be able to find happiness wherever they can get it. These are two consenting, legal adults. All the power to them.

jonathan

Beau and the Beast

zodak

that has to be a bad picture of her right?? right??

the only other explanation is that at her age she must be an expert in bed & ready to go all the time.

maybe he should see an eye doctor.

Tgirl

gross

r1b2

Um, so he's like a good-looking fella, right, and he gets paid because he's considered good looking, and she looks like, well,... Look, I don't want to do a whole superficial nature of beauty thing. I'm sure she's a lovely person, yadda, yadda, yadda. But she and he are not a match made in heaven. She's like a cartoon character.

Another interesting mismatch here is that she's at least intelligent enough to have compelted school and earned a teaching certificate. He, on the other hand: "I'm tapping that ass and there's nothing you can do about it." It's as if spoken by Cyrano.

r1b2

Um, so he's like a good-looking fella, right, and he gets paid because he's considered good looking, and she looks like, well,... Look, I don't want to do a whole superficial nature of beauty thing. I'm sure she's a lovely person, yadda, yadda, yadda. But she and he are not a match made in heaven. She's like a cartoon character.

Another interesting mismatch here is taht she's at least intelligent to have compelted school and earned a teaching certificate. He, on the other hand: "I'm tapping that ass and there's nothing you can do about it." It's as if spoken by Cyrano.

ides_of_march

"Salamino insists she didn't know he was enrolled in high school when their affair began; "

A school teacher who can't do basic math. Wonderful.