NJ teacher sent to prison for sex with 8th grader appeared happily married with kids before sick tryst

The New Jersey teacher who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for having sex with an eighth grader was a married mother of two, who doted on her daughters, according to her social media posts.Allison Havemann-Niedrach, a 45-year-old former special education teacher at Freehold Intermediate School, posted scores of photos on Instagram with her husband, Eric Niedrach, and their two girls in the years before authorities discovered her twisted tryst with the teen.Her posts also celebrate her Mormon faith.Havemann-Niedrach will spend the next 12 years in jail, a Monmouth County judge ruled on Friday after the victim, who was not identified, read an emotional impact statement in which he described their relationship as a “nightmare.”He said that he forgave the former teacher — which caused her to break down crying in the courtroom.Her husband and parents attended her legal proceedings before she pleaded guilty in January to sexually assaulting the boy when he was in eighth grade over a six-month period in 2024, Jersey Shore Online reported last year.It was not immediately clear if Havemann-Niedrach and her husband are still married.After his wife’s arrest, Eric Niedrach launched a desperate plea for money titled “Help provide normalcy” to keep her daughter in Taekwondo classes.“I continue to stand by my wife and my daughters as I believe in grace and forgiveness and I believe that is what Jesus would do,” he wrote on the online fundraiser page, which only raised a paltry $85 out of the $4,000 requested.“Additionally, my mother taught me that God is good all the time, even when it doesn’t feel that way.I believe there is a bigger picture being painted by His hand, and I know my family and I will come out stronger on the other side,” he continued.“Allison is doing ok.

She is receiving the mental help she has desperately needed all of her life but was denied by her family,” he wrote.Officials began investigating Havemann-Niedrach after the school�...