Jun 2, 2009 6:17 am US/Eastern
Pelham Teacher Busted In Online Sex Sting
Middle School Teacher Cavaluzzi, A Former Successful Lacrosse Coach, Admits To $500-A-Day Crack Habit
Faces Life In Prison For Allegedly Trying To Entice 15-Year-Old
By KATHRYN BROWN, CBS 2 HD News
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
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Gregg Cavaluzzi is a middle school teacher and a former highly successful lacrosse coach in Westchester County and Connecticut. He was busted for allegedly trying to have sex with a 15-year-old girl.
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A Westchester County teacher has been accused of living a double life -- social studies by day and hardcore drugs by night.
Prosecutors charged a Pelham middle school instructor and former lacrosse coach for allegedly trying to meet with a child on the Internet for sex.
Gregg Cavaluzzi admits to leading a disturbing double life. He was a seventh grade social studies teacher at Pelham Middle School by day, and a crack-addicted 34-year-old with a thing for 15-year-old girls by night.
One parent's face said it all.
"Oh that's bad, that's terrible," Sharon Bartley said.
Cavaluzzi knew where to go online in his quest for sex, but he didn't know authorities were onto him for over a year. When he thought he was hooking up with a 15-year-old girl he actually was setting a date with an undercover agent.
"At a motel in Bronx partying you smoke?" Cavaluzzi texted, "can you get down here."
"Hmm, where are you can you meet me somewhere," the agent texted back.
Moments later he asked, "say one thing you like to do very dirty."
"They all used to talk about how he was such a pervert and they all found it very disgusting," student Matthew Vitale said.
Vitale was in Cavaluzzi's class last year.
"He might look at different body parts thinking the girls wouldn't notice but everybody noticed," Vitale said.
At a court hearing Cavaluzzi pleaded not guilty to charges of enticing a minor for the purpose of sex, but he admitted having a $500 a week drug habit.
"I think it's horrible my daughter has him for study hall," one parent said.
"It's parenting 101. You have to keep an open dialogue with your kids," Donna Morris said.
Cavaluzzi has taught at six schools over the last decade and coached lacrosse at many of them. He says he was recently let go from Pelham Middle School because of financial reasons, though his name is still on the schools' Web site.
Because of the federal charge of enticing a minor for sex, Cavaluzzi faces up to life in prison if convicted.
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