A female teacher has been accused of luring a 13-year-old boy with cannabis and sexually assaulting him in her classroom before having sex in her car.
Policed arrested San Fernando Valley teacher Colleen Jo Matarico, 43, who now faces multiple charges of lewd acts with a minor, and furnishing marijuana to a minor. Cops investigating said the California educator “groomed and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old victim in her classroom, and later convinced the victim to have sexual intercourse in her vehicle”.
The name of the school where she taught, and her current employment status, have not yet been revealed but police said she was being held in lieu of $1.3 million bail.
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Officers think they may be other alleged victims to come forward and are appealing to anyone with information to contact LAPD Juvenile Division detectives at (424)259-7097. Anonymous tips can be provided to Crime Stoppers at (800)222-TIPS.
Meanwhile, a teacher who police say had sex with a prepubescent boy at a sleepover has now been accused of sending videos of herself masturbating to a 14-year-old student.
Kenosha County elementary school staffer Anna Marie Crocker was charged last month with first-degree sexual assault of a child after being accused of having sex with the 12-year-old. She’s now been further charged with sending a 14-year-old pupil videos of herself masturbating. Police said the 33-year-old worked at Riverview Elementary in Silver Lake, Wisconsin, from 2020 until she was fired over the serious allegations last month.
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According to a criminal complaint filed in the State of Wisconsin Circuit Court, Crocker is charged with “having sexual intercourse with a person who has not attained the age of 13” in the winter of 2023/2024. It is further alleged that she’s guilty of filming child pornography videos in August and exposing her genitals to a child in September.
She was first arrested in October when the 12-year-old alleged victim’s parents told cops they believed he had been sexually assaulted by Crocker at a sleepover she held for her own child. The complaint detailed that the kids played video games and basketball, and went for a walk before sleeping over at Crocker’s house. It added they went to bed at midnight and that the boy, 12, had been sleeping on a sofa in the basement.
“While asleep on the couch, he was woken up by the defendant who was naked,” the complaint revealed. “The defendant had removed [his] pants and was on top of him. Eventually, his friends heard noises and went downstairs. The defendant tried to hide, but his friends saw what happened. [The victim] went upstairs and told his friends what happened, then went to bed.” Read the full story here.
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