A New Jersey teacher had an illegal relationship with a 13-year-old boy, whom she had lived with for four years, and gave birth to the student’s baby, according to police.
According to Cape May County Correctional Center records, 34-year-old Laura Caron was arrested Wednesday. Caron was charged with sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, and endangering the welfare of a child.
The sister said she believed her brother was about 11 years old when these suspicious incidents began happening, according to court documents.
Caron taught fifth-graders at Middle Township Elementary School, which is located in the community of Cape May Court House in the southernmost tip of the state. Caron taught the alleged victim and his brother, according to authorities.
Over the years, the purported victim’s mother allegedly became friends with Caron. The mother let the boys and their sister stay at the teacher’s house so she could take them to school.
The affidavit states, “The father explained that it began with 1 or 2 nights a week and eventually the children stayed with Caron permanently, from 2016 to 2020.”
Caron made her first court appearance Thursday, during which the judge reportedly described Caron as a “resource family parent” for the children.
The sister of the alleged victim reportedly told investigators that the children would sleep in a shared room on the second floor of the teacher’s house. However, the sister reportedly noticed that her brother sometimes was in Caron’s bed the next morning.
WPVI-TV reported that the sister would see Caron enter the bathroom when the alleged victim was showering and lock the door behind her.
The sister said she believed her brother was about 11 years old when these suspicious incidents began happening, according to court documents.
The alleged victim’s brother told investigators that he witnessed Caron sexually assaulting his brother at a time when the two believed he was asleep.
Authorities said the boy impregnated Caron, and she gave birth in 2019, when the alleged victim was 13 years old.
The New York Post reported that the alleged victim’s father shared a Facebook post in December pointing out the uncanny similarity between Caron’s baby, his son, and himself.
The alleged victim purportedly distanced himself from Caron after his father’s revealing Facebook post.
The unidentified alleged victim — who is now between 19 and 20 years old — told police that he did have a sexual relationship with his former teacher and that he fathered Caron’s baby, according to court docs.
Police allegedly uncovered a text message from the alleged victim to his sister in which he admitted that he was the father of Caron’s baby but demanded that she keep it a secret.
The Middle Township School District received an anonymous tip Dec. 12 that claimed a teacher sexually assaulted a student, according to an affidavit of probable cause in the case. The tip led authorities to the father’s Facebook post.
“When the school district was first advised of the criminal investigation, Laura Caron was suspended, and removed from any contact with students, as we take allegations regarding employee misconduct seriously,” the Middle Township School District said in a statement.
Anyone with information on the case is urged to call Middle Township police or the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office at 609-465-1135.
You can view video reports about the allegations against the teacher here and here.
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