May 30, 2009 7:00 am US/Eastern
NYC Teacher Accused Of Classroom Sex With Student
Cops: Social Studies Teacher Melissa Weber, 27, Had Several After-School Trysts With 14-Year-Old
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Her head hung low, Melissa Weber was ushered away in cuffs, no doubt thinking about the probable end to her teaching career and whether her alleged sexual rendezvous with her 14-year-old student had been worth it.
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A Queens teacher and her student were recently caught having sex in the classroom.
On Thursday she was behind bars, charged with rape, sexual abuse and child endangerment after the student's mom tracked her down.
Her head hung low, Melissa Weber was ushered away in cuffs, no doubt thinking about the probable end to her teaching career and whether her alleged sexual rendezvous with her 14-year-old student had been worth it.
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"It's real disconcerting to find that," said parent and school employee Stacy Gold.
Gold works at I.S./M.S. 8 with Weber.
"It's extremely shocking. This is a teacher that teaches my son," Gold said.
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It was inside a second-story classroom where police said Weber gave one of her students an up close and personal lesson in sex education.
Kevin Lawson has Weber as a social studies teacher and said she is strict but cool. When asked if he ever saw Weber spending a lot of time after school with a certain classmate, Lawson said, "Yes, but I don't know if it was the same student or not."
Lawson said it was a common sight to see Weber after school working with several students. But authorities said the 27-year-old took particular interest in one student, having sex with the teen seven times from mid-April to mid-May, all after school.
She allegedly told him: "Don't tell anyone. I could get arrested and I could lose my teaching license."
Investigators said after the boy's mother was tipped off by school employees, she checked her son's cell phone and found hundreds of calls and texts from Weber, the last text reading, "erase your phone."
Weber's coworkers were just as stunned as students and parents.
"I had no idea of her private life or anything," school employee Mike Kertley said. "I just know she was a good teacher and, wow, this is a shock to me."
And apparently a shock to Weber who Thursday, the day she was charged, wrote on her Facebook page: "Melissa Weber is feeling very sick!!!"
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