Special Ed Teacher Accused of Impregnating 15-Year-Old

Yesterday police arrested a special education teacher for the Bronx School Of Science Inquiry and Investigation at M.S. 331, charging him with rape and sexual misconduct. Teacher Bill Agosto, 26, is charged with third degree rape and sexual misconduct for allegedly carrying on a year-long sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl, who was not a student at M.S. 331. Police sources tell the Daily News the relationship was consensual, and resulted in the girl getting pregnant. The affair allegedly began when he worked at a different school as a track coach.

Department of Education officials say Agosto is being reassigned away from the classroom. His sister swears he's innocent, but is this really the kind of thing you'd share with your family? One of Agosto's students at M.S. 331 tells the News, "He was mad nice, a little too nice. He let us do anything." Mm-hm. Interviewed by NY1, another student expressed shock: "That's just crazy because he teaches health and he taught us not to do that. And he did it."

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By John Del Signore in News on October 1, 2009 11:07 AM

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billbaird

Letterman in deguise! The "gap toothed", ole fart continues to sniff around!

Brooklyn

Have we not learned to simply presume all teachers -- particularly middle- to high-school -- to be pedophiles, whether they act on it or not?

NannyState

Just because they race the janitorial staff to sniff the seats after school lets out...is no reason to judge.

HymietownHero

A person attracted to middle- and high-schoolers would not be a pedophile.

ProcedureTurn

My question is:

How can he be a SPECIAL ED teacher at BRONX SCIENCE???

You're required to take entrance examinations for these schools. You mean to tell me that special ed kids attend this school? STY too and BKLYN SCI???

NannyState

The "special ones" study snail tracks.

smallgene

stuy has a program for special ed kids that is probably required.

Boogie Down

I wondered the same thing, but then re-read it and now believe that it's a different institution.

FunChop

Despite the fact that this seems reprehinsible, here in America we place too much value on the age number.

Different people mature at different rates, and some 15 year olds are considerably more mature than others.

It is only in the last few decades that this sort of relationship would seem that abnormal. A hundred years ago no one would have paid that much attention.

NannyState

A hundred years ago, nobody would have wanted a fifteen year old grandmother.

bassoonalex

a hundred years ago, her family would've gotten a dowry for her.

tom9d

A hundred years ago, the average lifespan was 47. So 15 year-olds were considerably farther along in their lives.

chuzzlewit

T-E-A-C-H-E-R.

hotstepper

correct!

schadenfreudian mensch

Will I see petition going around Hollywood to forgive this teacher?

NannyState

Only if Tim Robbins greenlights the script.

jaycjay

Maybe, eventually. If after 32 years he still hasn't tried and has committed no more crimes, is living in another country and the Justice Department decides to go after him in some other country.

Check back in 2041.