NJ teacher Ashley Fisler groomed boy starting at age 12, sent him 7,500 dirty texts: prosecutors
A married former New Jersey middle school teacher had sex with her student and then continued to carry out six years of “grooming, manipulation and abuse” starting when the boy was just 12, a prosecutor argued during a bail hearing Wednesday.Ashley Fisler, 36, had sex with her student and then continued sexting with him for years – as recently as January 2026 – even after the teen told her he wanted her out of his life, Gloucester county prosecutor Kylie Finley alleged.Fisler – who appeared from Salem County Jail by video – looked on during the nearly hour-long hearing, wearing dark green jail scrubs and only speaking to confirm her name, saying: “Ashley Fisler.”Through the years Fisler exchanged disturbing messages with the teen including, offering to buy him a sex toy, shave his pubic hair, asking him to describe the sex he had with girls his age, recommending steamy movies to him and requesting he send her photos of himself, Finley claimed.Finley said her office had 7,500 pages of text messages between the educator and the boy as she argued for Fisler to be held without bail while her case plays out.Finley explained the pair sent explicit photos of themselves to each other but her office was unable to recover them.Fisler also allegedly exchanged inappropriate messages with two other students, including sending one photos of herself in a bikini.Meanwhile, Fisler’s defense attorney, Rocco Cipparone, said his client isn’t a flight risk, as she is married, owns a house and lives near all of her family in the Garden State.He also claimed since she quit teaching in 2023, she is not a risk to other students.Cipparone accused Finley of cherry picking messages and taking them out of context to make them look worse than they really were.
And he claimed there was zero evidence that his client ever sexually assaulted the preteen.As for the messages she exchanged with the victim starting when he was 16, the defense lawyer said the teenager’s messages we...