Special-Ed Teacher Admits To Raping 15-Year-Old Boy

P.S. 80, the school where Williams worked (Google Maps).

A 42-year-old female special-ed teacher in Queens yesterday pleaded guilty in Queens Supreme Court to the third-degree rape of a 15-year-old boy. As punishment, in addition to surrendering her teaching license and registering as a sex offender, the teacher, Christine Williams, is expected to be sentenced to 90 days in jail and ten years probation in July. Williams had sex with the boy (who was not her student) at least twice last year in her Jamaica, Queens, home.

“The defendant has admitted to sexually taking advantage of a young friend of the family. As a teacher and an adult, the defendant was in a position of power to know better. Children should be able to remain children," Queens DA Richard Brown said yesterday in a statement [PDF]. "This case should serve as a clear and unmistakable warning that law enforcement is prepared under any circumstances to apprehend and prosecute sexual predators who betray and defile youngsters.”

Williams, a fifth-grade special ed teacher at the Thurgood Marshall Magnet School at P.S. 80, reportedly knew her victim through her stepson. The pair engaged in sexual intercourse at least twice between January and February, 2010. The affair unraveled, however, when the boy reportedly gave cops videos of of their activities, which raises the question: If you are going to engage in blatantly illegal sexual conduct, why would you videotape it for posterity?

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By Garth Johnston in News on May 25, 2011 9:08 AM

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Ann Omynus

This woman was taken advantage of when she was on her medication. In her own home by someone who was not invited into her bedroom. There was only one incident, Not 2. The "victim's" friend video taped the incident and then threatened her with it after he stole her car. Who should be going to Jail?

FemaleMolesters

4.2.3. VICTIM DISCOURSE

Most of the participants (female sex offenders) perceived themselves as victims rather than perpetrators. This is in line with a broader social discursive pattern which implies that men are perpetrators and women are victims. Such discursive patterns have historically and socially been used as a means to construct power relations (Fairclough & Wodak, 1997) and as such the availability of these discourses made it easy for the participants to assert themselves as powerless victims. Moreover, discourses concerning sexual perpetration are rooted in constructions of the male perpetrator and the female victim (Denov, 2001). Access to these constructions allowed most of the victim discourse produced by the participants to be centred on a male aggressor. These traditional sexual scripts also ensure that the responsibility for the sexual perpetration is laid on the male (accomplice) rather than the female and that the female perpetrator becomes the female victim (Bourke, 2007).

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Guest

oh, i love make-believe! now be a unicorn.

Ann Omynus

You think a sick little bastard wouldn't pull some crap like that on a vulnerable woman. I'll take a one way ticket to the shangri-la you're living in. This "boy" had just gotten relaesed from Juvie for some other "childish" prank he pulled.

FemaleMolesters

4.2.2. BLAMING DISCOURSE

Lawson (2008, p. 338) found that most of the female sexual offenders in her study “blamed their offenses on someone else.

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Guest

Good to know that some of you are cool with discrimination.

Rocknrope

15 year-old boys are horny as hell, but it doesn't mean grown adults can or should take advantage of that fact.

GoneGardens

I don't believe the child was enrolled in any special-education classes. She was just a special-ed teacher. I have an odd feeling about this since the boy was 15-years-old, he probably liked it. I knew many boys when I was 15 who would talk about having sex with a teacher of theirs. HOWEVER, he is only 15, she is a grown (responsible?) adult. She raped/sexually assaulted a minor. It makes me crazy that she will go to jail for 90 days when in most cases it seems a male would go to jail for years if he did something like this.

Sarah Pappalardo

Read more carefully: the boy was not special-ed. The woman was just a special-ed teacher who met the boy through her stepson.

Gothamist, you can be a little more clear about that in the first graf.

Garth Johnston

Correct, it doesn't appear that he was special-ed and he wasn't her student (she taught fifth grade).

And you are right–just clarified the first graf for you.

Bernie_Geotz_Squirrel_Luv

I wouldn't call that rape, I'd call it doing sick shit to a special ed kid who probably get's a boner when the wind blows through. She was the boat he was the mast. The ships came in. and, boom goes the dynamite.

farleft

"She was the boat he was the mast. The ships came in. and, boom goes the dynamite."

Let me get this straight. She was a ship, and he was her mast, and then another ship went by, and they heard a boom and realized the ship was attacking them? This analogy is clearly very confusing. Can you please use a more simple analogy to explain how this whole thing went down?

MermaidFornicator

please! a 15 year old male special-ed teenager is not an innocent child. he was not harmed by sleeping with her.

eemmbb

Nowhere does it say he was special-ed, she was just a special-ed teacher. She knew him through her stepson.

Qwerkie

A 15 year old is physically and psychologically still a kid. Anyone sexually attracted to that needs to have their head examined.

Guest

and so a male teacher sleeping with a 15 year old female student is kosher with you? do tell.

MermaidFornicator

i'm sorry that you can't tell the difference between a 15 year old male & a 15 year old female.

Guest

you didn't answer the question.

Ann Omynus

Sexually mature young men can not have sex against their will. Force would not be an issue. A "law" was broken. A boy got sex. A woman was abused.

FemaleMolesters

4.3. GENDERED DISCOURSE

The participants (female sex offenders) use of rationalizing discourse was partly based on gendered notions of the male aggressor and the female victim. The active male and passive female were further reinforced in descriptions of the offenses. These gendered constructions ensured that the offenders‟ roles in their crimes remained passive and as such these discursive constructions functioned to uphold the impossibility of female sexual perpetration. These findings align with Denov‟s (2003) findings that traditional gender roles function to uphold myths concerning female sexual perpetration.

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