NJ teacher who had baby with 13-year-old student pleads guilty despite victim defending her
A former New Jersey elementary school teacher who gave birth to a child fathered by her underage former student has pleaded guilty in the shocking sex abuse case — even as the victim insists he initiated the relationship and wants her charges dropped.Laura Caron, 36, pleaded guilty to second degree endangering the welfare of a child with sexual conduct, Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffrey H.Sutherland announced on Oct.
30.The creepy ex-educator faces five years in state prison under a plea agreement.Caron first met the boy, born in 2005, when she taught him and his brother fifth grade at Middle Township Elementary School in Cape May Court House.The family remained close with the pervy teacher, even allowing their two sons and daughter to sleep at her home several nights a week, according to Daily Mail.But prosecutors say twisted teacher had “inappropriate sexual relations” with her former pupil in a relationship that began when he was just 11 in 2016 and continued until he was 15.She got pregnant when the boy was 13 and gave birth to a daughter in 2019.The disturbing secret remained buried for years — until December 2024, when the boy’s father noticed an uncanny resemblance between Caron’s child, himself and his son in a Facebook photo.Then all hell broke loose.Investigators uncovered troubling details, including allegations that the victim’s brother once witnessed Caron sexually assaulting his sleeping sibling.The boy’s sister also recalled falling asleep beside her brother, only to awaken and discover him in Caron’s bed, ABC6 reported.But the victim, now about 21, has defended Caron and said he was the one who initiated the sexual relationship.“They need to drop all charges. I wasn’t groomed or raped or manipulated by her.She never initiated anything,” he told the Mail.
“I started everything. If it was up to me she wouldn’t have been in jail.”Caron, a former basketball player at Pennsylvania’s Cabrini University, was charged on ...