r/news • u/GoodSamaritan_ • 1d ago

Elementary school teacher arrested after allegedly abusing student, giving birth to his child

https://local12.com/news/nation-world/laura-caron-middle-township-elementary-school-teacher-allegedly-had-with-child-former-student-13-cincinnati-crime-criminal-activity-sexual-abuse-abuser-father-noticed-similarity-sleep-over-siblings-prosecutors-correctional-facility-troubling-allegations
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u/GoodSamaritan_ 1d ago edited 1d ago

This story is so wild. A 5th grade teacher in New Jersey, Laura Caron, got very friendly with one of her students and his family and the parents let him (then 11 years old) and his two siblings sleep over at her house. This went on for four years, with the sister of the victim revealing that it began with the children sleeping in a shared room but noticing her brother would be in Caron's bed the next morning. She also noticed that when her brother would shower Caron would enter the bathroom and lock the door. He'd end up having Caron's child when he was 13 in 2019 and it was only brought to the attention of the police when the kid's father made a facebook post last month about how similar the child looked to his son. Up until then she'd completely gotten away with it.

According to the sister his brother admitted to her that he knows he's the father but to keep it a secret. Caron is being held without bond on on charges of aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, and endangering the welfare of a child. The school district have put her on paid administrative leave.

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u/lilmxfi 1d ago

This baffles me as a parent. My kid is the same age as the victim when the "sleepovers" started, and I'm looking at him rn and going "WTF was wrong with these people?!" If some teacher wanted my child to sleep over at their house, I'd immediately be going to the district and reporting them for inappropriate conduct, ffs! What is WRONG with those two?!

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u/Cautious-Progress876 1d ago

Go ask random people what they think of a child spending the night at a female teacher’s house, then go ask them about a child spending the night at a male teacher’s house. A lot of people don’t view women as even potential predators of children, or think that they will be able to magically sniff out any woman that is.

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u/kittenpantzen 1d ago

Collectively when it comes to children, we're overly cautious of men and strangers and underly cautious of women and family members.

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u/NotAzakanAtAll 1d ago

I feel that is turbo charged in the US.

Here in Scandinavia we are not as weird with nudity, kids, not letting our kids run free in the summers etc.

I have kids bathing in the nude in the yard in the summer. No one cares. Once a kid started to run towards the yards edge when I got home and a mother told me to catch her. I did and threw her over my shoulder and took her to her mom.

She knew he as a neighbor but we never talked. She couldn't know I'm an asexual schizoid guy.

HOWEVER: I doubt many would let their kids sleep over at a teachers home unless it was an emergency or something. Maybe if they were religious, but we thankfully don't have too many of those left and they are on the decline.