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Special-Ed Teacher Admits To Raping 15-Year-Old Boy
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Garth Johnston
Published May 25, 2011
Modified May 25, 2011
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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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