Queens Teacher Pleads Guilty To Sex With 14-Year-Old Student

Melissa Weber, the social studies teacher at a Queens public school who was accused of having an affair with a 14-year-old student back in May, has pleaded guilty to statutory rape. Queens DA RIchard Brown said, “As a teacher, the defendant’s actions represent a disturbing betrayal of trust to the student, his parents and the school that employed her... The defendant’s admission of guilt today not only ensures that she is held responsible for her actions but it also spares the young victim in this case the emotional trauma of having to testify at trial.” As it happens, the 27-year-old's plea deal also spares her from a prison sentence, as she's likely to receive 10 years probation—plus she would register as a sex offender (which means her teaching license is revoked), will have to let the Probation Department know about her various Internet usernames, will not be able to use social network websites and can't visit "school grounds or any other places where children under the age of eighteen may be congregating." The "affair" was discovered when the student's mother found text messages between her son and Weber.

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By Jen Chung in News on August 5, 2009 3:30 PM

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Rocknrope

I loved reading her FB profile a day before she was hauled in. Her status said "Melissa Weber is not feeling well!" No shit.

NannyState

Mama Juggs escapes the cathouse yet again!

Felix Hoenikker

I don't feel tardy.

The Hanger-On

The often wacko conservative news website World Net Daily has been keeping tabs on women-teachers-with-their students stories like these for some time. Check out "The Big List": http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53859

Wonder what the fascination is....

longacre

The fascination is probably 90% of World Net readers are men, and 70% of those teachers should have no problems finding male companionship their own age.

babyhitler

usually this would get a "niiiice" from me. But not this time. unlike this hot for teacher moment http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/mostpopular/story/Ex-Teacher-Says-She-Never-Had-Sex-With-Student/lEVK0N-Rf0mn41UBE10uuQ.cspx

PTG in nyc

I too agree with the double standard. Guys and girls are at the peak of inequality during the middle school and high school years, meaning that they are in very different states of mind when doing things like this.

As usual, South Park did it best: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155304

PKinNYC

most students would be stoked to hit their teacher...but this one...not so much.

Polite New Yorker

I fully support the double standard that puts male teachers in jail for the same acts. Where were these horny young teachers when I was in high school?