Teacher, Accused Of Sex With Student, Held On $100K Bail

Melissa Weber, the Queens social studies affair accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student (in her classroom), is being held on $100,000 bail. Her lawyer Donald Vogelman had tried to argue for her release, since Weber, 27, doesn't have a criminal history and that "the alleged crime amounted to a statutory rape charge that would likely result in probation," while prosecutors were asking for $200,000 bail. Of the $100,000 amount, Vogelman told the Post, "She doesn't have money, and her family doesn't have the money to make bail. With what she looks like, she is going to have a difficult time in jail." The Daily News reports that Weber denied any sort of inappropriate relationship with the boy; Weber allegedly told the police he grabbed her butt a few times, "The only thing I did wrong was not reporting it." The boy's mother, who heard rumors of her son's and Weber's alleged closeness apparently found hundreds of text messages between the two.

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By Jen Chung in News on May 30, 2009 10:46 AM

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Rfive

What is the opposite of a butter face?

NannyState

Face butter?

Gertah

She's quite pretty, actually.

JacqueMehoff

I think the kid woke up from his orgasmic haze and saw what he was banging and didn't want to be teased for it.

I would like to see a pic of this degenerate.

AnnaZed

"With what she looks like, she is going to have a difficult time in jail"

I actually can't even interpret this comment, what on earth does he mean?

Kiki

white.

longacre

It means she's white as a ghost, which puts her in the extreme minority on Rikers.

AnnaZed

This simply did not occur to me. What New York lawyer tries to make a point that his client might not be safe at Rikers because she is white, in 2009? That's hilarious.

My thoughts were running along the lines of ... "hummm, why would she not be safe .... because she is obese?" or (conversely) I was wondering if her lawyer was bat-sit crazy and saying that she wouldn't be safe because she was so damn sexy, ha!

theevilone

She's going to be incredibly lonely, because even those prison bitches don't want her.

MLHencken

Comment WIN.

fauxsella

This is cosmic payback for her freezing Han Solo in carbonite.

r1b2

We have a winner.

Son of Spam

A++++++ Would read comment again.

Manitoba

Damn - that's cold, but definitely a comment win.

leepresson

"But if you can't be with the one you love, honey, love the one your with"

Ah, kids grow up so fast these days!

chuzzlewit

i don't feel tardy...

Mr Mel

The teacher's act itself, if true, would definitely be a sign of mental problems and should be treated as such.

freddynyc

Every time I see her picture I'm reminded of the scene in Total Recall where Arnold Schwarzenegger's character suddenly emerges from hiding...